Fascinating Photos Collected From History [22 pics]

“Over a 1000 pipers died during WWI. These extraordinary men were sitting ducks as they went over the top to pipe their men into battle. Piper Harry Lunan was the last surviving piper and he said: “I just played whatever came in to my head, but I was worried about tripping on the uneven ground, which interrupted my playing. The enemy fire was murderous, the men were falling all around me. I was lucky to survive. Hearing the pipes gave the troops courage.””

This is Trench Warfare. Photo taken by an official British Photographer during WWI, c.1917

400,000 people who were at Woodstock, 1969

Chichen Itza, Mexico in 1862 before cleaning and restoration

Picture from 2012 from a similar angle

The premiere of Star Wars at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. May 25, 1977

Queen Victoria and her family, including King Edward VII, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Frederick at a wedding in Coburg, Germany, 21 April 1894

The Four Romanov Sisters of Russia. 1906

The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) and all those who chose to accompany them into exile – notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov were shot in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918. The execution of the Tsar and his family was carried out by the Ural Soviet which was led by Yakov Yurovsky. The action had been ordered by the government in Moscow by Vladimir Lenin and Yakov Sverdlov to prevent the rescue of the Imperial Family by approaching White forces during the ongoing Russian Civil War.

White House reporters dash for the telephones after they had been told by presidential press secretary Stephen T. Early that Japanese submarines and planes had just bombed the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Wilt Chamberlain running high school track in 1962

The Smoking Lounge aboard the Hindenburg separated from the rest of the passenger section by a double-door airlock

Muammar Gaddafi with his daughter Aysha in his Bedouin tent, January 12, 1986

In case you’re wondering, she has been granted political asylum in Oman. Her mother has a reported personal wealth of $30Bn.

First public payphones in Los Angeles, California 1899

Captured WWI Allied Soldiers, representing eight different nationalities (From left; Vietnamese, Tunisian, Senegalese, Sudanese, Russian, American, Portuguese, and English.) at unknown German POW camp, 1918

First Photograph of a Person, Paris 1838

“Crane girls” at work at the National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, England, 1917

Effect of atomic heat and radiation on Hiroshima survivor, 1945

Al Capone in the front row of a White Sox-Cubs charity game, 1931

Al Capones Soup Kitchen During Great Depression, Chicago Illinois,1931

A movie theater, 1921

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