20 Historical Pics That Might Teach You Something New Today, As Shared By This Facebook Page

History is a fascinating subject! And when we learn history through photos, it seems more relatable, doesn’t it? Imagine reading about Rosa Parks in a history book and actually seeing a picture of her sitting on the front of a bus. What would you prefer?

#1 Rosa Parks Sits At The Front Of A Bus Following The End Of Racial Segregation By The Transit Company, Circa 1965

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#2 Long Before Color-Sensitive Film Was Invented, Russian Photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Took 3 Individual Black And White Photos, Each With A Filter (Red, Blue And Green) To Create High Quality Photos In Full Color. This Self Portrait Is Over 110 Years Old

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#3 On August 23, 1989, About 2 Million People From Latvia, Estonia And Lithuania Formed A Human Chain That United All 3 Countries To Show The World Their Desire To Escape The Soviet Union And The Communism That Brought Only Suffering And Poverty. This Power Stretched 600 Km

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#4 Three Generations Of Women Outside Their Stone Cottage In Ireland 1927

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#5 Marilyn Monroe Photographed By Earl Leaf 1950

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#6 The FBI Finger Print Files, 1944

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#7 A ‘Knocker-Up’ In London (1929). Before Alarm Clocks, People Were Paid To Wake Clients Up For Work By Knocking On Their Doors And Windows With A Stick

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#8 Monica Bellucci And Gianni Versace, 1995

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#9 Mary Wallace: First Female Bus Driver For Chicago Transit Authority, 1974 (Colorized)

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#10 20-Year-Old Helen Mirren Dressed For Her Role As Cleopatra In A Theatrical Production, 1965

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#11 Niagara Falls Froze Over In 1883

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#12 World War I Field: More Than 100 Years Later

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#13 The Sioux Nation Of Native Americans Teepees Spread Across The Great Plains In 1800s (Image Believed To Have Been Taken In The Dakota Territory)

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#14 World War One Memorial In Vácrátót (Hungary)

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#15 Stoney First Nation Member, Guide Samson Beaver With His Wife Leah And Their Daughter Frances Louise, 1907. Photo Taken By Mary Schäffer

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#16 German Soldier Helps A Little Boy Sneak Across The Berlin Wall, 1961

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#17 A Dapper Group On Their Way To Church, Chicago 1940s

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#18 Residents Of West Berlin Show Their Children To Their Grandparents Living In East Berlin, 1961

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#19 Negotiation Between The Zoo Director And Escaped Chimpanzee. Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1988

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#20 Sailors Saluting A War Veteran, Leningrad 1989

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