These Old Photographs Will Change Your Perception of the Past!

this video will help you learn and visualize how people used to live in the past and how things were arranged many years ago it turns out that some events and scenes from the past can be viewed from a completely different angle here are some rare historical photographs that will completely change your perception of the past a French crossbowman from World War I 1914 crossbows were actively used in that war primarily for lobbing grenades into en trenches these crossbows could lob a spherical grenade weighing up to a kg to a distance of up to 125 m a contest for the most beautiful women's legs on the beach in Istanbul Turkey 1971 on April 28th 1988 the roof of an Aloha Airlines plane got torn off at an altitude of 7,300 M but the plane was able to land safely Prince Charles dancing in the hopac in the 1980s this 1893 photo doesn't picture criminals or boxers after losing matches these are students from the prestigious Princeton University they simply had a snowball fight each of them probably went on to have a brilliant career in science protective clothing of a nurse from the x-ray department during World War I France 1918 objects that were used to cover facial injuries French wrestler Maurice tillay and American supermodel Doris Lee 1945 Shrek was later based off of him women cleaning a giant replica of a studabaker car Chicago 1934 it was probably the largest car in the world in 1920 the concept of healthy habits was a bit different here the athletes are casually sharing cigarettes during the tour to France bicycle race women delivering ice in lower Manhattan New York 1918 World War I broke out across Europe and women began to take on tasks that were previously performed exclusively by men from working in factories to transporting massive ice blocks to the front lines the need for such work was obvious during the time when refrigerators weren't yet widely available back then ice was distributed throughout the country by couriers who transported huge ice blocks across the country on carts and trucks the ladies in this photo delivered ice from the distributor to homes throughout Manhattan so that it could be used to keep the food cold as refrigerators and freezers became more widespread the company gradually scaled back its operations construction of the Berlin Wall 1961 understanding among the Victorious allies did not last long and their relations became strained the conflict escalated and eventually ended in the Cold War one of the cornerstones of this conflict was the the construction of the Berlin Wall which divided the German Capital into the Soviet and Western blocks East Berlin guards adding barbed wire to the top of the Berlin Wall in 1972 the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 the Grim symbol of the Cold War which had divided Berlin and the Civilized world into Communists and capitalists stood for almost 30 years until the parista came to the union and the collapse of the Socialist Camp began East German socialists lost power in the gdr and on November 9th 1989 the wall fell to the joyful cheers from both sides girls playing volleyball on stilts at Venice Beach 1934 duan's Shoemaker who lived in the 19th century French neurologist Gom Duan studied the reaction of muscles and nerves to electrical impulses his work laid the foundation for electromyography a diagnostic test that could detect nerve damage among other things Duan captured the facial expressions of patients when electrical impulses were applied to various facial nerves the problem was the long exposure time of Photography at the time which hindered such a procedure however Duan was lucky to have a middle-aged Shoemaker with facial nerve paralysis at his disposal in other words if Duan managed to get some expression on the patient's face by applying electricity to a certain facial muscle that expression would remain unchanged for several minutes until the muscle relaxed this allowed him to make a highquality long exposure photograph the doctor conducted over 100 experiments on the shoe maker attaching electrodes to various muscles and capturing a wide range of facial expressions the research accompanied by photographs was published under the title the mechanism of human physiognomy through his work Duan identified the function of several facial muscles and in particular revealed the mechanism of smiling in 1958 Mao declared a campaign against sparrows in China claiming they were eating all the crops people took up the decree enthusiastically they stood on rooftops waving Rags the thing is Sparrows need to rest every 15 minutes or so but people didn't let the birds land scaring them away by making sounds with rags and other devices sparrows literally dropped dead and people brought them to the special collection points in just a few days over a million sparrows were killed and within a few months they virtually disappeared from the entire territory of China the following year a terrible famine began as caterpillars ate all the crops making it difficult for the Chinese to feed their families Jose mayre and his legendary bicycle on which he set a speed record in 1962 accelerating behind a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL the cyclist reached a speed of 24.73 km per hour the record lasted for 20 years handcuffed prisoners using their legs to operate Mill Wheels in Yangon prison Myanmar in 1900 painting of the Eiffel Tower in 1932 physicist Harold agnu holding the core of the fat man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 it seems like an ordinary photo with nothing remarkable at first glance now look at the person in the background in the left corner of the photo now look at the tanks in the right corner this person is the unknown Rebel who single-handedly blocked a column of Tanks during the tenen and Men Square protests in June 1989 the identity of the Rebel couldn't be established but there is a theory that it was 19-year-old Beijing University student Wang wayin his fate is unknown he may have been executed or imprisoned or he may have escaped from the country rare shots of the frozen Niagara Falls in 1885 although it was only partially frozen when this photo was taken it froze completely only once in 1848 due to the water speed the waterfall was discovered by French colonists in the 17th century but remained relatively unknown to The Wider public for many years Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to descend Niagara Falls in a barrel Annie planned to make a fortune with this unique PR stunt she intended to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel on her birthday October 24th 1901 have you ever seen Niagara Falls without water do you know what happened to it in June 1969 American Engineers temporarily dried up the Niagara riverbed near the falls for the first time in 12,000 years they originally planned to clear the bottom of the Falls of a massive amount of Fallen rocks but this idea had to be abandoned due to the lack of funds during the temporary respit the riverbed was rein forced to slow down the erosion of the famous Falls in November 1969 a team of US Army Engineers blew up the temporary Dam and millions of cubic meters of water rushed back

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Length: 8min 15sec (495 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 12 2023