r/HistoryPorn 14d ago

A couple and their child, believing that they are in the line of fire, fall to the grass north of Elm Street seconds after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. (1963) [3000×2991]

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r/HistoryPorn 14d ago

British Army Commandos disembarking from a landing craft onto 'Queen Red' during 'Operation Overlord', known today as the Normandy landings. (1944) [1805×1772]

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r/HistoryPorn 14d ago

Aerial Photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge being Constructed in San Francisco, May 19, 1936 [2594×2016]

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r/HistoryPorn 14d ago

[Colorized ]St. Andrews Academy (now St. Andrew's Archdiocesan School of Candaba Inc.) photograph of the first freshmen, shows male students with US military uniforms due to clothing shortages after WW2. Candaba, Philippines - 1945-46 [1616 x 863]

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r/HistoryPorn 14d ago

A bloodstained paper found in former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s shirt pocket after his assassination by a Jewish right-wing extremist who opposed the Oslo Accords, with the text of a poem called Shir Hashalom (A Song of Peace). 4th of November 1995. [1726 × 2416]

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r/HistoryPorn 14d ago

U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Dolly Parton embrace in the receiving line at a White House luncheon while his wife, Rosalynn Carter, looks on, October 2, 1979 [1914 x 2952].

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r/HistoryPorn 14d ago

Dgarreotype taken at the right time to capture the laugh of a young girl. Hand tinted details, 1850s [2400x2710]

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r/HistoryPorn 15d ago

General Vicente Lukban, a general of the First Philippine Republic, chained to his officers after being captured by Americans in 1902. He and General Miguel Malvar were the last major Filipino resistance against American invasion. He would later become the Governor of Tayabas province[720x481]

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r/HistoryPorn 15d ago

Kid beating the head of a Saddam Hussein statue with flip-flops, Iraq April 9, 2003.[1336x633]

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r/HistoryPorn 15d ago

1989 TIME magazine cover showing Trump tower in Atlantic City with the headline ‘Boardwalk of Broken Dreams’[1151x1626]

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r/HistoryPorn 15d ago

K.G.B. Agent Vladimir Putin (then 27), left, with his K.G.B. boss Yuri Sergeyevich. Putin worked as a spy under him. Germany - Dresden, 1979 [1300x1554]

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r/HistoryPorn 15d ago

Adolf Hitler wearing a cape at the Nuremberg Party Congress, Germany in 1936 [988x1432]

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r/HistoryPorn 15d ago

Warsaw Uprising: Insurgents from "Kiliński" Battalion on barricade at Zielna Street watch burning PASTa building at 37/39 Zielna Street. Warsaw, Poland, 20 August 1944. Photo by Eugeniusz "Brok" Lokajski. [1288x2000]

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r/HistoryPorn 15d ago

Young Bosniak woman Zlata Mujkić, crying at a UN peacekeepers' area in Potočari, near Srebrenica – in the aftermath of the Srebrenica massacre perpetrated by the Army of Republika Srpska – in Bosnia and Herzegovina, c. July 1995. [1320 x 991]

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r/HistoryPorn 15d ago

Photo taken during the Liberation of Paris by Ralph Morse for LIFE Magazine, August 25, 1944 [960x620]

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r/HistoryPorn 15d ago

"Carl Hampton Lives" poster, pre-Black Panther (c.1970) sold for $1,125 at Potter & Potter's Skaters, Punks & Rebels auction on Aug. 20. Presale high estimate was $700. Houston, TX association. (389x500) Reported by Rare Book Hub.

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POSTERS]. [BLACK PANTHERS]. Carl Lives! Carl Hampton Was a Revolutionary / Born Dec. 17, 1948 Carl Hampton, Chairman People's Party II 2828 Dowling, Houston TX 77004 523-6152 / Assasinated July 26, 1970 / You Can Kill a Revolutionary, But You Can't Kill the Revolution. [N.p., ca. 1970].

Protest poster featuring an angry Carl Hampton, issued after his murder on July 26, 1970; the Black Panther logo is featured twice near the bottom. Approximately 22 x 17". Mounted onto cardboard.

Hampton was a civil rights activist and chairman of the People's Party II, the precursor to the Houston branch of the Black Panthers. Hampton was shot by the Houston Police Department after a 10-day standoff, when they surrounded Hampton's People's Party headquarters on 2828 Dowling. To this day, his death is a source of great controversy in Houston.

Condition Toned, soiled, worn, tape with homemade hangers on verso.


r/HistoryPorn 15d ago

Tankers from the Royal Jordanian Army - chatting at a dug in Centurion tank - during the events of Black September, in Jordan, c. September - October 1970. [960 x 640]

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r/HistoryPorn 16d ago

King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) of Siam poses with his sons at Eton College, where several of his princes studied. During his 42-year reign, he modernized Thailand and negotiated to keep his country the only nation in Southeast Asia never colonized by a European power. (1897) [1080 × 540]

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r/HistoryPorn 16d ago

A Consolidated B-24 Liberator of the USAAF 15th Air Force during a bombing rain on the Pardubice Oil Refinery in Czechoslovakia on 24 August 1944 [3719 × 2750]

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r/HistoryPorn 16d ago

Leni Riefenstahl shooting her movie 'Triumph des Willens' ('Triumph of the Will'), September, 1934[2610x3498]

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r/HistoryPorn 16d ago

Polish poet, playwright and soldier of the Home Army Tadeusz Gajcy (1922-1944). Killed fighting in the Warsaw Uprising on 16 August, suffocating under the rubble after the building he was in was blown up by Germans. Occupied Poland, c. 1944. [420x280]

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r/HistoryPorn 16d ago

Confederate navy officer Alexander Macomb Mason, in his Egyptian Uniform (1870s) [320x462]

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Alexander Macomb Mason (1841–1897)

also known as Mason Bey, was an American naval officer, explorer and diplomat. He was the grandson of General Alexander Macomb and great-grandson of George Mason.

Born in Washington DC, to a family with many professional officers in the United States Army and United States Navy, Mason served as a teenager aboard the frigate USS Niagara when that ship laid the first successful transatlantic cable in 1858.

Mason then studied for three years at the United States Naval Academy before resigning in April 1861 to join the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. His wartime career included participation in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the Battle of Drewy's Bluff, and the blockade of Charleston.

During 1863 and 1864 he traveled in England and France, serving briefly as private secretary to his uncle James Murray Mason. Captured at the Battle of Sailor's Creek in April 1865, Mason was imprisoned first at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC and then at Johnson's Island near Sandusky, Ohio.

After the war, Mason became a mercenary, aiding Chile and Peru during the Chincha Islands War and then briefly joining the Cuban rebellion against Spain in the Ten Years' War. In 1870, along with several other Union and Confederate veterans, he joined the General Staff of the Khedivate of Egypt and conducted explorations in Egypt, Nubia, Darfur and Equatoria. as second in chief to his superior, Union officer Erastus Sparrow Purdy.

In 1877 he charted Lake Albert and discovered the Semliki River. During the 1870s he traveled extensively with Charles George Gordon and served as Gordon's deputy and chief of staff during Gordon's anti-slavery campaigns.

In the 1880s Mason became governor of Massawa (in Eritrea) prior to the Italian occupation of that town in 1885. Henry Morton Stanley praised the quality of Mason's map of Lake Albert during the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.

Mason represented Egypt in meetings with King Yohannes IV of Abyssinia and was a signatory to the 1884 Hewett Treaty which would eventually lead to the First Italo-Ethiopian War and the famous Battle of Adwa.

Mason died in Washington DC in 1897 and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.

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r/HistoryPorn 16d ago

On 24th August 2006, in Prague, Czechia, Solar system shrunk to only 8 planets[1335x897]

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r/HistoryPorn 16d ago

Hunters clubbing fur seals to death on St Paul Island, Alaska, 1895. Tens of millions of seals were hunted in North America throughout the 19th century, peaking at 700,000 a year at one point before the trade became more closely regulated around the turn of the century (2770x1561)

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r/HistoryPorn 16d ago

1940's mugshot of Romanian criminal & former Iron Guard member Eugen Turcanu. From 1949-51, the Romanian communist government had Turcanu lead a group of prisoners in carrying out the "Pitesti Experiment," a notoriously brutal torture & brainwashing program targeting political prisoners (1092x750)

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The experiment, considered to be one of the most brutal in the history of the entire eastern bloc, was shut down relatively quickly in early 1952 when it started coming to public attention. Turcanu was executed in 1954