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The picture was created for propaganda purposes, hence the use of a really small woman as the guard to make the captured airman look more unheroic. Photographer Billhardt met Dewey Waddell in 1998. Waddell told him that the photo has positively impacted his life by helping his family and the U.S. know that he remained alive. North Vietnam’s treatment of American airmen shot down and captured over North Vietnam was a subject of controversy and concern throughout the Vietnam War....

Before Apollo 11 set out, NASA couldn’t be positive that, if bits of dust or potential microorganisms got loose back home, life on Earth would be safe. Needless to say, accidentally setting a lunar plague loose on the inhabitants of Earth would have erased all the good publicity garnered by accomplishing the moon landing in the first place. Just in case, in addition to the protections they were establishing to make sure the moon rocks remained free of terrestrial contamination, NASA decided to establish a three-week quarantine for the crew of Apollo 11....

And because that didn’t seem quite cruel enough, quite strong enough to make their case, they cannibalized both Boali and her mother. And they presented Nsala with the tokens, the leftovers from the once living body of his darling child whom he so loved. His life was destroyed. They had partially destroyed it anyway by forcing his servitude but this act finished it for him. All of this filth had occurred because one man, one man who lived thousands of miles across the sea, one man who couldn’t get rich enough, had decreed that this land was his and that these people should serve his own greed....

The American Red Cross had been operating in the Balkans since the mid-1915 and in 1920, they sent out a photographer to travel the region and capture the everyday life of the Balkans during some of its darkest moments. We’ve collected a few pictures in this article accompanied by the original captions and edited them for clarity. The war had enormous repercussions for the Balkan peninsula. People across the area suffered serious economic dislocation, and the mass mobilization resulted in severe casualties....

These studio portraits, captured during a pioneering era of photography, serve as enduring testaments to the lives, experiences, and roles of those who took part in this historic conflict. The mid-19th century marked a pivotal moment in the evolution of photography. The daguerreotype, introduced in 1839, was the earliest photographic process, but it required subjects to sit still for several minutes, resulting in a single, unique image on a polished metal plate....

Because the job of rolling cigar after cigar could become monotonous, the workers wanted something to occupy and stimulate the mind. Thus arose the tradition of lectors, who sat perched on an elevated platform in the cigar factory, reading to the workers. It started in Cuba and was brought to the United States more particularly to Key West in 1865 when thousands of Cuban cigar workers emigrated to Florida to escape Spanish oppression....

Photography has come a long way since its inception, and the journey has been marked with some remarkable milestones. From the earliest forms of photographic processes to the revolutionary digital age, photography has been a driving force in the way we capture and document the world around us. In this article, we’ll take a journey back in time to explore the famous first photographs in history, some of the oldest photos to have ever been captured....

As outdoor wear, the Victorian period men would use a coat or cloak. Sometimes, they could have two to three various garments for different occasions. While one garment was usually dominant for the general occasion, others were generally kept for special events. Among the garments, the form of trousers hardly survived the period while the waistcoat survived in large quantities. Earlier in the Victorian era, breeches were just disappearing while trousers had just become a relevant outfit....

The trip had all the features of a diplomatic tour— he met American officials, appeared on Meet the Press, and visited national landmarks such as Mount Vernon and the Lincoln Memorial. Instead of meeting Castro, Eisenhower left Washington to play golf. Vice President Nixon met Castro in a 3-hour long meeting. Nixon asked about elections, and Castro told him that the Cuban people did not want elections. Nixon complained that Castro was “either incredibly naive about communism or under communist discipline”....

New York Central’s breathtaking Grand Central Terminal (or GCT) is a New York City landmark and world-famous station. It was built during the Golden Age of rail travel and exemplified the power and scope railroads wielded at that time. While the terminal was a masterpiece of architecture and engineering, described as a gift to New York and a monument to the New York Central, it also had a very functional purpose....

They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. Americans affixed the president’s name to these shanty towns because they were frustrated and disappointed with Hoover’s inability to effectively deal with the growing economic crisis. Shocked and confused by the crisis, they held Hoover personally responsible for the state of the economy. Most large cities built municipal lodging houses for the homeless, but the Depression exponentially increased demand....

He was just 23, with an IQ of 46. He understood the simple joys of eating, playing, and the world of trains – things you could see, smell, and live. But things like God, justice, and evil were like elusive dreams to him. The doctors called him an “imbecile,” a term for someone who thinks like a child between four and six. When the police pressured him into confessing to a gruesome murder he didn’t commit, his short life met a tragic end....

Authors like Henry Davia Thoreau and Washington Irving exhorted Americans to pursue nature even as the frontier rolled away from them. Landscape artists culminating with Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt presented awesome spectacles that received huge public interest. The rise of attention to nature coincided with the search for identity and pride among Americans. When compared to Europe’s thousands of years of history, its fabric of ancient structures and sites, its rich cultural legacy built on many centuries of interchange, the United States appeared a rude, uncultured backwater....

Soldiers succumbed to the strangling effects of chlorine, phosgene, and mustard gas for years as the stalemated armies searched for new ways to defeat each other. And it wasn’t just human combatants who suffered — many military working animals died from chemical weapons. Dogs have been used in warfare since ancient times, serving as sentries, messengers, attackers, and even mascots. About one million dogs were killed in action in World War I, a conflict that also saw the first large-scale use of chemical weapons....

It is difficult to establish their number, because ethnic definitions may vary, and the choice of identifying oneself as a Sámi is an individual one. The current estimate, however, places the total population between thirty thousand and fifty thousand, most of whom live in Norway. The Sámi have historically been known in English as Lapps or Laplanders, but these terms are regarded as offensive by the Sámi, who prefer the area’s name in their own languages, e....

The mind craves color, yearning for a connection that black and white imagery struggles to provide. Adding color to photos used to be really hard before computers came along. People had to paint colors onto the photos, which took a lot of care and time. But with computers, things changed. It’s still a lot of work, but it’s become much easier to do. When artists work on these photos, they dig into old records to find out what colors things really were....

The bombs were detonated just a couple of hours apart on July 20, 1982, and timed to cause maximum casualties. The military casualties were quickly removed. But long-range camera lenses captured, in dreadful detail, the aftermath with the shattered remains of the car bomb surrounded by dead horses. Part of the power of the image is that it shows how indiscriminate the attack was. The soldiers were in general the primary target, but the terrorists were willing to accept whatever collateral damage came with them – including these horses....

She then became the highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood cinema. Born in London to socially prominent American parents, Taylor moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1939. She made her acting debut with a minor role in the Universal Pictures film There’s One Born Every Minute (1942), but the studio ended her contract after a year....

In the eyes of many men, pride and honor glowed in competition with the excitement of a wonderful adventure and the knowledge of righting some perceived infringement on the interests of their respective nation. Within weeks however, the excitement and glory gave way to horror and anonymous death, brought on by dangerous new machines of war which took control of the old fields of honor and turned them into desolate moonscapes littered with corpses and wreckage....

The O’Halloran sisters – Annie, Honoria, and Sarah – lived with their parents and their brothers, Patrick and Frank, in the townland of Lisbareen, southwest of Bodyke village. They were the tenants of Colonel John O’Callaghan, who would become notorious by the end of the Irish Land War. The Second Irish Land Act of 1881 had attempted to give tenants more security by paving the way for rent reductions, guarantees of the same rent for periods of 15 years, and, in some cases, eventual proprietorship....