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Every July 4th, John Gotti would threw a raucous block party in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens. During this news segment, a reporter asks a resident about the festivities and the infamous mobster.

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A sharecropper takes a lunch break on his farm, photographed by Dorothea Lange outside of Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1937.

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Measuring 45 feet tall and 30 feet wide, the Myogilsang Buddhist statue is a massive bodhisattva that's carved into the side of a cliff in North Korea's Manphok Valley. It's estimated to be at least 700 years old.

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American soldiers during the Vietnam War use a shotgun barrel to smoke marijuana while stationed at a base camp 50 miles from Saigon in November 1970.

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A defiant Michelle Phillips eats a banana while 'performing' California Dreamin' on the Ed Sullivan Show after the producers forced The Mamas & the Papas to lip-sync.

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In the 13th century, Pope Gregory IX declared that cats were Satan's minions and soon across Europe, cats would be burned alive en masse in front of delighted crowds. Oftentimes, women accused of witchcraft would be sentenced to death and encaged with several black cats before being set on fire.

u/HeSureIsScrappy — 13 days ago

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Mary Smith, a “knocker-upper” who earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at windows to wake people for work in East London.

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The male contestants of the 1988 National Aerobic Championship.

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Estimated to be 1,000 years old, this mummy of the "Warriors of the Clouds" people was recovered in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest in 2007.

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The reforestation of Rio De Janeiro from 1989 to 2019.

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A beer vendor at Chicago's Wrigley Field in 1975.

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Leonard Nimoy celebrates his 36th birthday with his parents in March 1967.

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Daniel Waldo, a clergyman from Connecticut who served in the Revolutionary War. He's reportedly the only man to have voted for both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln for President.

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The Irish Elk — the largest known deer species in history — which roamed across Eurasia until it went extinct approximately 7,500 years ago.

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A local news segment in Fort Worth, Texas asks parents about taking their kids to see Alien in 1979.

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A family of Soviet peasants listen to the radio for the first time in 1928.

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The top hat worn by President Abraham Lincoln on April 14th 1865, the night that he was assassinated. It's now on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington D.C.

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The mugshot of 19-year-old Phyllis Stalnaker, who was arrested in San Diego in 1944 for being a "weedhead" and a "tramp."

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Andrew Myrick, a trader who told starving members of the Dakota tribe to "eat grass or dung." On the first day of the Dakota War of 1862, his head was cut off and his mouth was stuffed with grass.

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A Soviet doctor examines survivors of Auschwitz after Red Army troops liberated the camp in January 1945.

u/HistUncovered — 2 months ago

Every July 4th, John Gotti would threw a raucous block party in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens. During this news segment, a reporter asks a resident about the festivities and the infamous mobster.

A sharecropper takes a lunch break on his farm, photographed by Dorothea Lange outside of Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1937.

Measuring 45 feet tall and 30 feet wide, the Myogilsang Buddhist statue is a massive bodhisattva that's carved into the side of a cliff in North Korea's Manphok Valley. It's estimated to be at least 700 years old.

American soldiers during the Vietnam War use a shotgun barrel to smoke marijuana while stationed at a base camp 50 miles from Saigon in November 1970.

A defiant Michelle Phillips eats a banana while 'performing' California Dreamin' on the Ed Sullivan Show after the producers forced The Mamas &amp; the Papas to lip-sync.

In the 13th century, Pope Gregory IX declared that cats were Satan's minions and soon across Europe, cats would be burned alive en masse in front of delighted crowds. Oftentimes, women accused of witchcraft would be sentenced to death and encaged with several black cats before being set on fire.

Mary Smith, a “knocker-upper” who earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at windows to wake people for work in East London.

The male contestants of the 1988 National Aerobic Championship.

Estimated to be 1,000 years old, this mummy of the "Warriors of the Clouds" people was recovered in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest in 2007.

The reforestation of Rio De Janeiro from 1989 to 2019.

A beer vendor at Chicago's Wrigley Field in 1975.

Leonard Nimoy celebrates his 36th birthday with his parents in March 1967.

Daniel Waldo, a clergyman from Connecticut who served in the Revolutionary War. He's reportedly the only man to have voted for both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln for President.

The Irish Elk — the largest known deer species in history — which roamed across Eurasia until it went extinct approximately 7,500 years ago.

A local news segment in Fort Worth, Texas asks parents about taking their kids to see Alien in 1979.

A family of Soviet peasants listen to the radio for the first time in 1928.

The top hat worn by President Abraham Lincoln on April 14th 1865, the night that he was assassinated. It's now on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington D.C.

The mugshot of 19-year-old Phyllis Stalnaker, who was arrested in San Diego in 1944 for being a "weedhead" and a "tramp."

Andrew Myrick, a trader who told starving members of the Dakota tribe to "eat grass or dung." On the first day of the Dakota War of 1862, his head was cut off and his mouth was stuffed with grass.

A Soviet doctor examines survivors of Auschwitz after Red Army troops liberated the camp in January 1945.

A defiant Michelle Phillips eats a banana while 'performing' California Dreamin' on the Ed Sullivan Show after the producers forced The Mamas & the Papas to lip-sync.