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Irishmom2 said:
Wow, that looks like another scene from a movie. I wonder what was happening in her life.
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Hi @Irishmom2 .

This link will give you info about the photo .

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A Lady Battles with Police as They Try to Prevent her from Committing Suicide, 1942 - Rare Historical Photos

The lady in the picture with the mirror held above her head – was Mrs. Edna Egbert. The photographer caught her in the ready-to-swing position, as a cop gets ready to dodge.
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Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and spent several minutes sitting on the astonished Queen’s bed early on June 9th, 1982. The Queen was woken when he disturbed a curtain . She engaged Fagan in conversation so as not to alarm him until she was able to get help .

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Patti Gallagher Mansfield, front left, was a 20-year-old junior at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh when she attended a Holy Spirit retreat Feb. 18, 1967, with about 25 college students. The “Duquesne Weekend” is the acknowledged beginnings of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the United States, which has spread around the world.

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On 24 July 1967, during a state visit to Expo ’67, General Charles de Gaulle, president of France proclaimed from the balcony of Montréal’s City Hall a sentence that would change the history of Canada: “Vive le Québec libre”.

Translating to “Long Live Free Quebec”, it is considered by many to be Charles de Gaulle’s semi-formal endorsement of the concept of Quebec sovereignty.

By repeating the slogan of Québec independence movement, de Gaulle provoked a diplomatic incident that resulted in the cancellation of his visit . He had to go back home .

 
Richard Feynman on the bongos. He was a nobel prize winner in Physics, worked on the Manhattan project, made important insights into the Challenger disaster, pioneered the field of quantum computing, introduced the concept of nanotechnology, and played the bongos. The other pictures were from his time on the Manhattan project.

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I have seen this photo a few times and it always makes me laugh.
Do these guys know how ridiculous they look?
 
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, June 28, 1914 , an event that is widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I

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The result of 15 minute’s rat-hunting in a French trench in WW1 with the help of the Jack Russell Terrier in the gentleman’s arms at left.

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Pah-Ute (Paiute) Indian group, near Cedar, Utah, in 1872.

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Members of Clarence King’s Fortieth Parallel Survey team, near Oreana, Nevada, in 1867.

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Old Mission Church, Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. View from the plaza in 1873.

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The “Nettie”, an expedition boat on the Truckee River, western Nevada, in 1867.

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President John F. Kennedy speaks before reporters during a televised speech to the nation about the strategic blockade of Cuba, and his warning to the Soviet Union about missile sanctions, during the Cuban missile crisis, on October 24, 1962 in Washington, DC.

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President John F. Kennedy signs a proclamation enacting the U.S. arms quarantine against Cuba, on October 23, 1962.

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U.S. Army anti-aircraft rockets, mounted on launchers and pointed out over the Florida Straits in Key West, Florida, on October 27, 1962.

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A P2V Neptune U.S. patrol plane flies over a Soviet freighter during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

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A Soviet submarine near the Cuban coast controlling the operations of withdrawal of the Russian Missiles from Cuba in accordance with the US-Soviet agreement, on November 10, 1962.

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A single soldier on his horse, during a cavalry patrol in World War I

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Members of the Royal Scots Greys cavalry regiment rest their horses by the side of the road, in France.

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Belgian refugees leaving Brussels, their belongings in a wagon pulled by a dog, 1914.

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Western Front, shells carried on horseback, 1916.

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I’ve always liked Grand Central Station. It relaxes me. Will try to have a very overpriced meal there overlooking everything like in this picture when I’m in “town”.

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“Uncle Bill” Lundy claimed to be the last living Confederate Civil War veteran in Florida, and spent his 107th birthday at Eglin AFB, Florida in January 1955.

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Swastika destroyed near end of WWII
 
Martin Luther King visits the Berlin wall on September 13, 1964, at the border Potsdamer Platz in West Berlin.

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The East Berlin Gethsemane Church on October 12, 1989. About 1,000 East Germans took part in a prayer service here for imprisoned pro-democracy protesters. The church was the focus of protests in the final days of the wall.

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Queen Elizabeth , then Princess Elizabeth , during World War 2 joined the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service and trained as a mechanic and driver .

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She’s a remarkable lady .
 
Patrick Pearse reading the Easter rising declaration in 1916 founding the Republic of Ireland. Another picture with Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera.

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ohmyLord, have mercy on little children ! we only need to look at children then and now, all around the world, to see what we have done.

Thank you to all who posted these incredible images. God Bless
 
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A British blacksmith removing the leg irons off a slave, 1907.

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