A person is thrown from a burning hotel with a mattress to cushion the fall (Seoul, Republic of Korea, 1971)
49
12
1809
Game Boy Color Kirby Tilt'n'Tumble cartridge with a built-in accelerometer (2000)
18
1
369
In 1950, the Guinness Book of World Records named Klaus from San Francisco as the fattest cat
41
14
1227
A lesbian couple in the nightclub Le Monocle (Paris, 1932)
21
11
784
Baby kangaroo meets koala
34
1
625
A portrait of Mao Zedong is being protected from students throwing paint-filled eggs (Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989)
33
4
1252
Women's bare-knuckle fighting (United Kingdom, 1900s)
13
4
868
Geisha delivering services at home (Japan, 1901)
25
5
918
Sincere shock on the faces of Spanish nuns, who saw girls in bikinis for the first time (Barcelona, 1965)
28
14
1611
A man stops a tank with his body during the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (August 1968)
29
2
511
A firefighter attempts to extinguish burning oil that has been spilled (Gulf War, 1991)
22
10
1124
The only survivor during the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (USA, 1940)
15
16
991
A lie detector test measuring the physiological response to a kiss (1939)
14
7
1004
Public humiliation of an opponent of the Cultural Revolution in China (1966)
18
6
1051
In 1977, Boston firefighter Bob McKay approaches an 88-year-old woman who is attempting to jump from a building
24
20
1069
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, participating in the chess championship in Havana (1965)
6
6
826
Clothing made of money during hyperinflation in Germany (circa 1923)
31
9
1020
Ernest Hemingway shares a drink with Spanish bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez behind bars (1959)
19
2
836
Children arrested for violating the law on racial segregation. They were playing in a place where Black children were not allowed to play.
25
6
983
Cigarette butt collector (Paris, 1905)
12
11
865
Children from West Africa holding freshly caught bats (Northern Province, Sierra Leone, 1968)
14
6
1085
A dismantled Ferris wheel in a scrapyard (Paris, April 3, 1921)
19
8
851
A dancer. In the background, an atomic explosion (Nevada, 1950)
26
5
917
Che Guevara in kindergarten in Shanghai (1960)
15
8
1113
//Mitch Lucker on June, 12th, 2011 during “Download Festival 2011” at “Donington Park” in Castle Donington, England!//
-5
3
556
The 39th President of the USA, Jimmy Carter, once sent his jacket to the dry cleaners, forgetting a cheat sheet with nuclear launch codes in his pocket
12
8
476
The Chinese giant Chang, whose height exceeded 2 meters and 40 centimeters (1840s - 1893)
30
13
1400
Paul McCartney's arrest at Tokyo Airport for carrying marijuana (Japan, 1980)
28
6
1383
Cats preparing for a space flight at the Space Research Laboratory (Paris, 1963)
10
4
814
Charles Manson, age 5, in a photo taken just before his first day of elementary school
18
10
869
Mikhail Gorbachev and Erich Honecker, the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
13
9
1124
A British sailor removes the shackles from a slave
48
9
1664
A break during the construction of a bridge in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1950
49
16
1612
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Italy (1944)
23
2
945
The Camel advertising billboard, designed by Douglas Lee, emitted a 1.5-meter-long ring of smoke every five seconds
36
6
1361
Jackie Chan in Russia (1996)
14
7
456
George Nissen, the inventor of the trampoline, jumping at the top of the pyramid (Egypt, 1977)
26
9
1339
A newspaper seller on the day of John Lennon's murder (London, 1980)
20
3
1034
The arrest of a former cop who shot two police officers during his detention
13
1
541
Children simulate executing a criminal during a game
14
5
920
Sergei Yesenin's 80-year-old mother at the cemetery by her son's grave in the last year of her life (Moscow, 1955)
9
0
410
A rally of African Americans in Moscow in December 1963
8
4
342
A crowd attempts to overturn a car with a black family during racial riots in Clint, USA (1956)
17
5
451
An opium party in France (1918)
40
12
1320
A Frenchman was arrested by the New York police with 24 pounds of pure heroin. He arrived in the USA on board a luxury liner
315
40
18525
A journalist interviews a 14-year-old soldier (Angola, February 1976)
39
17
1464
A car powered by wood charcoal (Japan, 1945)
23
5
958
A hundred years ago, a man like this would have been considered so obese that he would have been exhibited in a circus
40
10
1902
A participant of Shackleton's Antarctic expedition tries to stay on his feet during strong winds (Antarctica, 1912)
28
8
1233
A kitten descends a fire pole (USA, 1955)
22
1
860
1874 photograph of a giant squid in a bathtub
14
4
1106
A dog that was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1924
12
7
890
One of the last photos of Lenin, taken by his younger sister, Maria Ulyanova, in 1923
24
5
1348
Gathering pine bark for food consumption due to a food shortage caused by the civil war (Finland, 1918)
24
15
1213