Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt with Anna and baby James, formal portrait in Hyde Park, New York. 1908
The Real Face of George Washington: Profile. From Life Mask of the 53 year old Washington made by French sculptor, Jean Antoine Houdon. Commenting to a friend, Houdon said he had no idea of the "majesty and grandeur of Washington's form and features" until he studied him as a subject.
3 May 1951: King George VI is greeted by Leader of the Opposition Winston Churchill, and Queen Elizabeth is greeted by Prime Minister Clement Attlee, as they arrive for the official opening of the Festival of Britain
When President McKinley was shot at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, NY in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest person ever to become President. He was only 42. As President, he continued to be a very visible and traveled leader shown here on a New England tour in 1902.
False Testimony Triggers Persian Gulf War On the eve of the Persian Gulf War in 1990, a Kuwaiti nurse named Nayirah issued a stirring testimony before the Congressional Human Rights Congress: She said she had witnessed invading Iraqi soldiers removing Kuwaiti babies from their hospital incubators. The story was moving and widely-shared—several senators, as well as President George H. W. Bush, repeated the story in the days leading up to the launch of Operation Desert Shield.
In 1910, Violet Constance Jessop was working as a steward on the RMS Olympic. It collided with the HMS Hawke. She survived. In 1912, Violet Constance Jessop was working as a steward on the Titanic. It collided with the infamous iceberg and the ship sank. She survived. In 1916, Violet Constance Jessop was working as a nurse on the HMHS Britannic. There was an explosion, possibly caused by a mine or torpedo, and the ship sank. She survived. Violet Constance Jessop. WOW
Charles Sherwood Stratton, aka General Tom Thumb, daguerreotype, ca. 1848. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Julia Ward Howe -wrote the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" .She was inspired by her abolitionist work . The song was popular in the union during the civil war. After being widowed she worked tirelessly for womens sufferage . She became a pacifist because of her horror at the Civil War carnage.
Dinosaur tracks discovered up a near vertical wall in a Bolivian quarry. Spread across a limestone slab a mile long and almost 300 feet high, this great wall at Cal Orcko near the city of Suvre reveals more than 5,000 footsteps, with 462 discrete trails. / via @Bianca Prince
President William Clinton and President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin at Springwood, the Home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York , 10/23/1995.
President William Clinton and President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin at Springwood, the Home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York , 10/23/1995.
A Trip to the Moon dir. Georges Méliès, France, 1902, video, 16 mins, color, silent w/ recorded musical accompaniment by Air In the first outer-space adventure in the history of cinema, six members of the Astronomers’ Club set off on an expedition to the moon, encounter the Selenites, flee their King, and return home to a triumphant parade. The hand-painted color version of Méliès’ legendary A Trip to the Moon was unseen for 109 years until its glorious new restoration by Lobster Films, Gr
Crucifix and cover of the prayer book that Mary, Queen of Scots carried with her on the day of her execution.
ClassicPics @History_Pics · A foot guard passes out as Queen Elizabeth II rides past during the trooping the colour parade in June, 1970, London.
ClassicPics @History_Pics · Charlie Chaplin meets Helen Keller on the set of "Sunnyside," 1919.
ClassicPics @History_Pics · Bruce Lee training Kareem Abdul Jabbar (1970s).
A week before his father’s assassination JFK, Jr. marches into the presidential limousine. The President had just placed a wreath on the graves of the Unknown Soldiers in a Veterans Day ceremony, November 11, 1963.
It is the oldest known olive tree on Earth, with a tree ring age of at least 2,000 years. Carbon daters have estimated it to be about 4,000 years old, and it still produces tasty olives today. It is 15 feet thick at the base, is not particularly tall, as olive trees go, but is, quite literally, gnarly. Totally gnarly. The trunk is magnificently swirled, knotted, and bulbous. This one may be the tree Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) wrote of when mentioning a sacred Greek olive tree 1,600 years o...
Valeria Messalina, died 48 A.D. A Roman Empress that everyone hated. She is reputed to have challenged a prostitute to a 24 hour sex competition, which she won, satisfying 25 partners in that time. Then she openly cheated on her husband, Emperor Claudius and plotted to kill him with her lover. Claudius had her decapitated in a garden, as she was too scared to take the option of suicide. Only her children mourned her.
Brothels during this period were typically small with only a few rooms. The Lupanar was the largest of the brothels found in Pompeii with 10 rooms. Like other brothels, rooms in the Lupanar were plainly furnished. A mattress on a brick platform served as a bed.
The Grand Duchesses and their skulls after the discovery of the Romanov burial site in the 1990s. Marie’s skull is missing because her remains had not yet been found.
In fact, every Babylonian woman was expected to go to a temple and perform the rite with a stranger at least once in her life. Like Inanna, Ishtar was known as the Goddess of prostitutes, and her alternate names of Har and Hora gave rise to the terms “harlot” and “whore”.
History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) tweeted at 3:08 PM on Sat, Sep 27, 2014: Former slave named Gordon shows his whipping scars. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863 t.co/v7wAd3oKuN
In Japan, a rich tradition of body art, known as Irezumi, stretches back to approximately 10,000 BC. Tattooing was banned between 1876-1948, when the art form became associated with criminality and gang culture. But once prohibitions were lifted, tattooists were free once again to work without fear of arrest. Here, a Japanese man is pictured in 1958 with full body tattoos.
Temple Houston, son of Sam Houston, orphaned at 7; raised by a sister. At 19, he graduated w/honors from Baylor with a law degree, passed the bar to become the youngest practicing lawyer in TX. He spoke French, Spanish 7 Indian languages. He became renowned for defending prostitute Millie Stacey in 1899. His closing summary (The Soiled Dove Plea) is still studied by law students today. It's considered the perfect defense argument and a masterpieces of oratory in the English language.
Archaeologists Have Made An Incredible Discovery At Stonehenge. Using powerful ground-penetrating radar, investigators have detected burial mounds, chapels, shrines, pits — and most remarkable of all — a massive megalithic monument made up of more than 50 giant stones buried along a 1,082-foot-long c-shaped enclosure. This changes virtually everything we thought we knew about Stonehenge. The news comes just a week after finding out that Stonehenge was once a complete circle . Sept. 10, 2014
# PANDORA was the first woman who was formed out of clay by the gods. Zeus commanded Hephaistos and the other gods to create a woman, Pandora, and endow her with the beauty and cunning. He then delivered her to Epimetheus, the foolish younger brother of Prometheus, for a bride. When he had received her into his house, Pandora opened the box which Zeus had given her as a wedding present, and released the swarm of evil spirits trapped within.
In 1979, a number of people in Sweden called in sick with a case of being homosexual, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness.
History Pics (@CombinedHistory) tweeted at 11:01 AM on Fri, Sep 26, 2014: Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth (both 30 at the time) meet at a movie premier in London, October 1956 t.co/k5peYbQKcC
Charles Nungesser, WWI ace (43 victories) and adventurer. He died attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight in The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc) with wartime comrade François Coli. The aircraft took off from Paris on 8 May 1927. It never arrived. This was two weeks before Charles Lindbergh's successful attempt.
Since Texas became a state, the Rio Grande has marked the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But, like rivers do, it moved. In 1964, the U.S. finally gave back 437 acres of land.
Long before the American south was integrated, the African Choir performed before Queen Victoria in Britain. This group of South Africans toured all over Britain from 1891 to 1893, but few know about this unique moment in history and how their story was almost lost completely. The African Choir was formed by a group of black Christians to raise funds for a school in Africa.
Etruscan helmet, Perugia, Frontone Necropolis, Tomb of 1840. 4th century BC.
A jubilant Harry Truman holds up a Chicago newspaper emblazoned with the (erroneous) headline, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, St. Louis, Missouri, November 4, 1948.
Senator and presidential candidate John F. Kennedy (left) and his campaign manager, Robert Kennedy, confer in a hotel room during the Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, July 1960.
Appartements privés de Marie-Antoinette | secret, well hidden behind a discreet panel, a small spiral staircase - Versailles
President Richard Nixon throws out the first pitch at an All-Star Game at Riverfront Stadium on July 14, 1970, #Ohio.
New Video Shows John Crawford Fatally Shot By Police In Wal-Mart huff.to/1uplzLm via @HuffPostCrime
113-Year-Old Time Capsule Found Inside Old State House Statue fw.to/GN7NYmb - A 1901 article in The Boston Globe indicates that the capsule would contain “contributions from state and city officials, the Boston daily newspapers, the name of the maker of the lion and unicorn, and others.” Whatever they are, the capsule contents—some of which may be weather-damaged—will be added to the Bostonian Society’s collection.
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. She reigned for nearly 58 years from 1890 to 1948, longer than any other Dutch monarch.
Lincoln's body lay in state in New York's City Hall as a sign outside proclaimed "The Nation Mourns."
William The Conqueror Family Tree | The Normans and The Plantagenets
17th century Charles II of Spain's family tree // perhaps the most inbred royal human being to have ever lived.
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