Old School 101 [26Jan020]
Kids remote learning during a polio outbreak in the 1940s. Teachers read lessons over the radio!
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Old School 101 [04Jan2021]
The very first foam finger, worn by its inventor Steve Chmelar.
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Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
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Paparazzi taking pictures of Bill Clinton's cat, 1992.
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The Prague Astronomical Clock installed in 1410 - World's Oldest Working Astronomical Clock
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Santa Claus with the children during Croatian War, Vukovar, 1992
Read articleLying down and vomiting between courses: This is how Ancient Romans would feast
"Eating was the supreme act of civilisation and celebration of life," said Alberto Jori, professor of ancient philosophy at the University of Ferrara in Italy.
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Queen Elizabeth and Marilyn Monroe were born in the same year. This is them meeting at a movie premiere in London 1956, both at the age of 30.
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Princess Diana meets comedian Rowan Atkinson in 1984
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Native Americans of the Blackfoot tribe in Glacier National Park, Montana. Circa 1913
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A tooth extraction taking place in a liquor store in 1872 before dentistry became a common profession in of itself.
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A salesman has his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station, 1961.
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The Mercury Train, Chicago 1936
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Bill Gates with a CD-ROM that contains more information than on all the paper below him in 1994
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A British women's fire brigade takes the salute, March 1916.
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Daylight shining into Grand Central Station before building were built that blocked it all out
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Australian soldier petting a kangaroo, 1914.
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A Russian soldier feeds polar bears from his tank, somewhere in the USSR c.1950
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Vibration Therapy. A treatment for headaches in 1890s
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A rare view of the Statue of Liberty from the balcony on its torch. The exit there has been closed since 1916.
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John F. Kennedy campaigning in the hills of West Virginia, 1960
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Niagara Falls frozen solid (1902)
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Americans During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
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Orgone Accumulator, a device sold in the 1950s to allow a person sitting inside to attract orgone, a massless 'healing energy'. The FDA noted that one purchaser, a college professor, knew it was "phony" but found it "helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for four hours every day."
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In 1921 a mob of white supremacists with the help of the United States National Guard attacked a prosperous black community in Tusla, OK, and murdered at least 200 and injured more than 1,000 black people. They even used airplanes in the attack. This day is also known as Black Wall Street Massacre.
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First Black Samurai - Yasuke (1581)
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Joe Arridy giving his toy train to another inmate before he is taken to the gas chamber. The "Happiest prisoner on death row", an innocent man with an IQ of 46, he used to spend his time playing with that train.
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