November 14, 2022 History & Stories Charming Photos Of A Young Queen Elizabeth II, 1930s-1950s Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other sovereign countries from February 6th, 1952 till her death in 2022.
November 13, 2022 History & Stories Sarah Rector: The 11-Year-Old Who Became The Richest Black Girl In America In 1913 Sarah Rector, a black citizen of Muskogee(Creek) Nation, was born on March 3, 1902, and is popularly recognised as the “Richest coloured
November 13, 2022 History & Stories Rare Photos Of Queen Elizabeth When She Was A Truck Mechanic, 1945 In 1939, when World War II started many advised the British royal family especially, the Queen and princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, then
November 10, 2022 History & Stories Emotan – The Market Woman Who Became A Royal Aide Emotan, whose real name was Uwarraye was a 15th-century market woman, revered by the Benin people for aiding Oba Ewuare in reclaiming
November 8, 2022 History & Stories Adolf Hitler Reacts To An Excited American Woman Kissing Him At The 1936 Berlin Olympics Just before the men’s 1500 meters free-style swimming ended, a woman wearing a red heart, who had repeatedly tried to take pictures
November 7, 2022 History & Stories Alice Liddell: Photographs Of The Real Alice In Wonderland, 1858-1872 Alice Liddell was the middle daughter born to Henry George Liddell, Dean of Christ Church at Oxford. Alice and her sisters, Edith
November 4, 2022 History & Stories Spyros Louis, The First Marathon Race Winner Of The Modern Olympic Games, 1896 At the start of the Olympics in 1896, the organizers were trying for a show that portrayed the ancient glory of Greece.
November 1, 2022 History & Stories Lunch Atop A Skyscraper: The History Behind The Photo,1932 In 1995, a photo taken captures eleven workers, mostly immigrants, who while having lunch sit comfortably on the tiny width of the
November 1, 2022 History & Stories R-100 Airship: Photographs Of The Interior Of A “Flying Hotel”, 1929-1930 The R100 Airship began construction after the British Government embarked on a project on advancing their airships to guarantee passenger and mail
October 31, 2022 History & Stories V-J Day In Times Square: Story Behind the Picture, 1945 In August 1945, it was till after the Japanese announced their defeat, that the lights in Times Square came on. The lights
October 31, 2022 History & Stories Rare Photos Of The First Flight Expedition Over Everest, 1933 In 1918, British mountaineering physiologist, Alexander Kellas, gave birth to the idea of a flight quest over the Mountain Everest. Kelly further
October 30, 2022 History & Stories These Unique Images From 1890 To 1950 Show The Last Civil War Warriors Following the end of the war, over a 1.5million unions, as well as confederate veterans, became involved in various active post-war societies
October 28, 2022 History & Stories A Young Hitler Cheers The Start Of World War One, 1914 This photo was taken by a Munich photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann during a rally to support the war against Russia on the 2nd
October 27, 2022 History & Stories Rare Images Of World War I Military Observation Balloons, 1914–1918 During World War I, balloons provided the perfect mid-air surveillance. The idea of the Balloon was birthed in a bid to serve
October 26, 2022 History & Stories An American Soldier Extends His Hand To A Woman Coming Out Of A Cave Where She Had Hidden With Her Kid, 1944 The photograph was during the Battle Of Saipan which took the lives of 22,000 Japanese Civilians, most of who died by suicide
October 24, 2022 History & Stories The Story In Photos Of The Massive Hughes H-4 Hercules, 1945-1947 The Hughes H-4 Hercules, originally built as a transport plane, during the war, never achieved that as it was only flown one