27 little-known historical photos that prove that history can surprise

Old photographs may be more interesting than any book or movie, because they open the veil of secrecy over the past and tell real stories. Often this, of course, is only a moment of events and incidents, which today are overgrown with many speculations. And all the same, it is incredibly curious and fascinating to look at all these pictures, peer into the details, trying to catch the ghosts of bygone days.

Londoners take shelter from German bombing in the subway, 1940

Pink Floyd Concert in Venice, 1989

Trainees oversee coronary artery bypass surgery performed by Dr. Cooley, 1970s

Khreshchatyk, Kiev, 1944

Portrait of Stalin in the GDR, 1950

Drew Barrymore gives a cigarette a cigarette to Stephen King

The last photo of tilacin - an extinct species of marsupial wolf, 1933

A soldier shares a banana with a kid at the battle of Saipan, 1944

Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light 1930s

Harry Houdini prepares for a stunt in Boston, 1906

Pablo Escobar with his son near the White House, 1980s

Young Osama bin Laden in judo training

Mutsu battleship tower recovered from Hiroshima Bay

Passers-by study a new map of Europe after the First World War, 1918

A Swedish woman passing through a concentration camp beats a neo-Nazi, 1985

Leon Trotsky in the hospital after the assassination attempt, 1940

Rolls-Royce Salon, 1926

Soldiers cross the battlefield in the Chateau Forest, Belgium, 1917

Lee Harvey Oswald (with glasses) with colleagues at the Minsk Radio Plant named after Lenin, 1960

The Hindenburg, 1936

Benito Mussolini with his hand lion cub

Installation of the German-Soviet border, 1939

Civil War veteran tells stories to boot cleaners, 1935

First gay parade, 1972

A dove sits on Fidel Castro's shoulder during his speech, 1959

Walt Disney employees prepare a robot for the exhibition, 1964

Everyday nannies, XIX century

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