Rare Historical Photos!

It's easy to forget history as something represented only in stories and writing. But there is no present without the history preceding it, and we cannot look to the future without looking at the other direction as well - the past, for it is the past upon which we stand when we try to step forward into future times. There have been many glorious and horrible moments in our past, and this photo series brings that fact to light in amazing clarity. Here, the past is still alive and kicking, and for a few moments, we are back in those momentous time and events that shook the world not that long ago... Mousulini and the fascist party headquarters, Italy 1934   Bonnie and Clyde in a photo found in one of their hiding spots after a police raid. Missouri, 1933   The last known photo of the Titanic, 1912   Exposing the Mona Lisa after WWII   The first photo ever to capture a person on camera. On the bottom left you can see a man having his shoes shined. He actually stood without moving for the 10 minutes exposure took, and so it seems like he is the only one on the street. Paris, 1838.   The infamous drug baron Pablo Eskubar with his son in front of the white house. Washington DC, 1980s.   Helen Keller teaching Charlie Chapling sign language, 1919.   Fighter plane smoke trails as an air battle takes place over London between the British and Germans, September 1940.   John Kennedy and Lindon Jhonson together with senior staff during the Cuban missile crisis.   Celebrating the end of alcohol prohibition, December 5th, 1933   Original Poo bear and Christopher Robin, 1928   Louis Payne, conspirator of the assassination of Lincoln, under arrest, April 1865.   Emperor of Japan in full regalia, 1872.   The air ship hinderburg floating over the Empire State building, New York City, 1936   The first photo of people drinking beer, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1844.   Butch Cassidy and gang, Fort Worth, Texas, 1900.   The last public execution in the United States, 1936.   Louis Armstrong plays to his wife in Egypt at the Pyramids, 1961.   British soldiers going over wire fences during the first world war, France 1916.   Albert Einstein desk after his death in 1955.