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war is only for stupids, but... - itshistory: Golden Gate Bridge opening day on...
its history: Golden Gate Bridge opening day on May 27th, 1937.
Buffalo Bill - Wikipedia
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), in Le Claire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US Army as a scout. One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West
SPY WEEK Famous Polish Spies - Krystyna Skarbek
Krystyna Skarbek (1915 – 1952) was a Polish Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent who became a legend for her daring exploits in intelligence and sabotage missions to Nazi-occupied Poland and France. She was a British agent months before the SOE was founded in July 1940. She had been the longest serving British woman agent during World War II. Because of her exploits, the SOE began recruiting more women agents into the organization.
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11 year old peanut vendor with his cart selling peanuts on the street in Wilmington, Delaware. 1910.
Golden Gate Bridge opening day on May 27th 1937
London 1900s
On the busy streets of London, 1900s. #Edwardian #vintage #street_photography
Badass
Tibor Rubin was a Hungarian-born Jewish soldier who survived a Chinese prison camp, a Nazi concentration camp, single-handedly defended a hill against the entire North Korean army TWICE, was nominated for the Medal of Honor four times, received it once, and lived to tell the tale. In the process he single-handedly saved the lives of 40 of his fellow comrades by breaking out of a hardcore Chinese POW camp, raiding their barracks and stores for food and medical equipment
Maria von Maltzan - a German resistance heroine, by Leslie Wilson
"In 1943, Maria von Maltzan, a German aristocrat, took Hans Hirschel, her Jewish lover into her Berlin apartment to hide him from the Nazis. It was the time when the last Jews were supposed to be 'cleansed' out of Berlin. Since Hans had ingeniously faked his own suicide, he was registered as dead, and for a long while, no suspicion fell on Maria; until one day..." Read the rest of the story at the link.
SeriousWheels: Bollywood, Hollywood News | Movie And TV
Henry Ford with his first car in 1896. Start small and carry on!
Watch The Moment A Man Finds Out He's Surrounded By People He Saved From The Holocaust
Reaction from the man who saved over 600 children from the holocaust and finds out that he is surrounded by those he saved.