#1 A Member Of The Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) Poses For The Camera While Holding A Puppy He Saved During World War 1, 1918
#2 A Ute Warrior Poses With His Dog On The Eastern Slope Of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains In 1873
#3 A Protestant Husband And His Catholic Wife Were Not Allowed To Be Buried Together. Here Are Their Headstones Reaching Across The Two Cemeteries In 1888
The photograph of death row inmates on this list might seem jarring, but prison baseball was actually quite a popular thing. Sing Sing prison in Ossining, N.Y., was one of the first institutions to try out baseball as a form of "self-government" for inmates in 1914. "Baseball would be the best way to cement an honor system among the men," warden Thomas Mott Osborne said.
In fact, the teams became so popular that such Hall of Famers as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, together with the New York Mets, came to play an honorary match against the prison team in 1929. Granted, the inmates lost 17-3, but it did set a precedent for future matches, which became a tradition.
#4 Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Was Arrested For Protesting In 1961. She Was Tested For Mental Illness Because Law Enforcement Couldn’t Think Why A White Woman Would Want Civil Rights
#5 This Is Port Authority Police Officer Christopher Amoroso On The Morning Of September 11th, 2001
Geishas are a cultural icon of Japan, and their hair is a vital part of the iconic look. In the past, the women would style their own hair, which they would have to take impeccable care of. But nowadays, geishas wear wigs called Katsura. They started using wigs after WWII, when there was a shortage of hairstylists.
The styling of the hair also depends on the seniority of a geisha. Those in training, or maiko, will have a red piece of cloth in their hair. After two or three years of their apprenticeship, maiko will have a triangular piece of cloth pinned to the back of their hair.
At the end of their apprenticeship, maiko will put tortoiseshell ornaments in their hair, silver wires that imitate the wings of a dragonfly, and a tuft of hair at the back of their head. Katsura wigs are reserved for mature geishas only.
#7 Protesting The High School Dress Code That Banned Slacks For Girls, Brooklyn, 1940
#8 Clara Gantt, Widow Of Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Gantt, Waited 63 Years For His Remains After He Was Captured And Died During The Korean War In 1951. His Remains Were Identified In 2013
#9 17 Year-Old Juliane Koepcke Was Sucked Out Of An Airplane In 1971 After It Was Struck By A Bolt Of Lightning
When you look at Chauncey Bradley Ives's "Undine Rising from the Waters," you might think it's a sculpture from ancient Greece. Experts call his technique "illusionistic carving," which was done masterfully for this particular sculpture. It depicts a scene from a 19th-century story by Baron Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué, Undine.
It's a story about a sea spirit that gained human form when she married a human king. After he cheats on her, Undine is set to take his life, and Ives's sculpture is the moment she rises from the water to do this.
#11 East German Soldier Helps A Little Boy Sneak Across The Berlin Wall The Day It Was Erected In 1961
#12 The 9000 Who Never Made It Home, 1945 This Is A An Art Piece Dedicated To Those Who Died On D-Day. It Was Designed By Andy Moss And Jamie Wardley
One historical photograph in this list includes a Ute warrior posing with his dog. The Ute are a tribe of Indigenous Americans in the mountains, or what we currently call Utah and Colorado. Interestingly, the Ute creation story includes the figure of a dog as well: along with the Creator, there was a Coyote who lived on Earth in ancient times.
#13 On July 17, 1967, A Florida Lineman Named Randall Champion Accidentally Touched A High-Voltage Line — Which Sent 4,000 Volts Of Electricity Through His Body And Stopped His Heart
#14 Gunnar Kaasen And His Team Of 13 Dogs
According to the Ute creation story, the Creator sent the Coyote with a bag of "sticks" to the sacred valley. He forbade him to open the bag or look at what was inside it. His curiosity got the better of him, and the Coyote opened the bag before reaching his destination.
People spilled out of the bag and ran in many different directions. Coyote, unable to catch them and put them back inside the bag, reached the valley and let out the remaining people, who were the real Utes. As punishment for his foolishness, the Creator cursed the Coyote to forever run the Earth on all fours "as a nightcrawler."
#17 A Team Of Archeologists LED By Professor Kutalmis Grkay Of Ankara University Recently Unearthed Three Ancient Greek Mosaics In The Turkish City Of Zeugma
#18 Anne Frank Photographed With Her Sister Margot At The Beach In Zandvoort, Netherlands, In 1940
The first photo taken after the explosion at Chernobyl that you'll find in this list belongs to photographer Igor Kostin, who was one of the five photographers tasked with documenting the disaster. Although he spent some time in the radiation zone, he didn't end up with radiation poisoning and passed away in 2015 in a car crash at the age of 78.
#19 Elsie Alcock, Born In 1918, Has Lived Her Entire Life In The Same House On Barker Street In Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire. Remarkably, She Was Born In The Very Home She Still Lives In Today
#20 Cats Blackie And Brownie Catching Squirts Of Milk During Milking At Arch Badertscher’s Dairy Farm, Fresno, California, 1954
