Cybermen photographed waiting for a bus for the BBC series Doctor Who. It was used as a publicity stunt for the episode arc titled The Moonbase. January 19, 1967.
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Cybermen photographed waiting for a bus for the BBC series Doctor Who. It was used as a publicity stunt for the episode arc titled The Moonbase. January 19, 1967.

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Ethel Waters and eight-year-old Sammy Davis, Jr. in the musical comedy short "Rufus Jones for President" (1933).

u/onwhatcharges — 3 days ago

The Atacama Giant in Chile is the world’s largest prehistoric human geoglyph, built around 1000–1400 AD. The 119-meter desert figure likely served as an astronomical calendar to track seasons, crops, and rainfall, and is culturally linked to the Andean creator deity Tunupa-Tarapaca.

u/onwhatcharges — 3 days ago

Italian women partisans patrolling the streets of Milan during the liberation of the city. The photograph was taken around April 25, 1945, a day known as Liberazione in Italy, marking the end of the Nazi occupation and the Fascist regime.

u/onwhatcharges — 5 days ago

The Leipzig Burgomaster’s family, photographed by Margaret Bourke-White and Lee Miller.(1945). Bourke-White's pictures are on the left, and Miller's on the right.

u/onwhatcharges — 5 days ago

In 1949, a group of kindergarten students were given a simple Father’s Day assignment: Draw your dad. Without photographs, references, or corrections, the children filled pages with wonderfully honest portraits.

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The remarkable thing about “Child’s First Tales” is that it starts with the Crucifixion, which turns out to be THE CHEERIEST PART OF THE BOOK. I suppose that says it all about 19th century children’s literature.

u/onwhatcharges — 21 days ago

In 1976, American Bandstand Dick Clark asked Donna Summer about her time in Germany, which resulted in her singing a line from "Love to Love You Baby" in German.

u/onwhatcharges — 21 days ago

Hunter Brothers doing some mid-air mechanical checkups during their 23-day-long flight without landing in 1930. Over the 23 days, food and fuel were delivered to them periodically by another airplane.

u/onwhatcharges — 23 days ago

Workmen laying a wooden water pipeline near Lewiston, Idaho, c. 1891. Before steel, concrete, and PVC became standard, many water systems used wooden stave pipes, built with timber sections held together by metal bands. Once filled, the wood would swell and help seal the joints

u/onwhatcharges — 1 month ago

The last five survivors of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 pose at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, circa 1880. They are, from left, Naish Hanney (b.1792) (seated), John McKay (b.1785), Benjamin Bumstead (b.1798) (seated), Robert Norton (b.1790) and Sampson Webb (b.1798) (seated).

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