It was Albert Einstein’s 72nd birthday. By 1951, the physicist was already a celebrity, attracting paparazzi like movie stars do today. Tired of the cameras, just at the moment a photographer asked him to smile, his weariness led him to stick out his tongue. That image, which many today believe to be false, was a sensation in his time, so much so that even Einstein loved it.
That photograph is important because it shows one of the most important minds in history behaving like any other.
Just like that, there are many other images that, when found on the Internet, surprise us because of how strange they seem, because we usually think of the past as textbooks suggest it, boring and distant from what we are today.
The following photos allow us to approach the past from another aspect, since the differences that we find with the present only make us more curious about them.
Samuel Reshevsky playing against several chess professionals at the same time (1920)
Hitler’s Bunker (1945)
Titanic survivors boarding the ship that rescued them (1912)
The only photograph of the now-extinct quagga (1870)
Protest of women seeking the right to vote in Japan (1922)
illustration of Hitler and Lenin playing chess (1909)
First photograph of the Earth taken from space (1947)
First photograph in history (c. 1826/1827)
Frozen Niagara Falls (1911)
Fascist party headquarters of Benito Mussolini
Photograph of astronaut Charles Duke and his family left behind on his journey to the moon (1972)
Albert Einstein’s office as he left it a few minutes before he died (1955)
The Original Hollywood Spectacular (1923)
Nagasaki atomic bomb explosion about 20 minutes later (1945)
Did you know that there were photographic records of these unforgettable moments in history?
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