The pictures were taken by Maxim P Dmitriev - one of the founders of the photojournalism genre - who was a member of the Russian Photographic Society.
We've worked long and hard here at Cracked to make it clear that the past was badass. All you have to do is sift through old-timey photos, and you quickly realize that people back then possessed neither sanity nor a sense of self-preservation.
War is a wacky, bizarre kind of hell.
The rainy season is here and I love it. More from one of my favorite spots on earth. This is post tripod destruction so my camera is sitting on a mossy rock.
The Photo-Club de Paris was created by members who seceded from the Société de Francaise de Photographie and it included influential photogr...
Disease. Families with 25 children. Awful poverty. The slums of the East End in the 1950s were a tough place for a young midwife. But as this poignant memoir shows, it was also a world of compassion, sharing - and an NHS that really worked
A film clip brings back the lost language of pre-World War II America
Just four miles from the centre of London Limehouse is now a luxurious area between the City and Canary Wharf.
I am not sure if it is my love for sociology and psychology or my curious fascination for how others live and express themselves. But I love to look at crazy inventions, foods, culture, and old letters and documents of other people different from...
Make-Believe & Reality. Depicted by R. (Richard) André. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. New York, E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1884. First edition. This is the story of a group of...
The Sugar Association — up until the mid-1970s — aggressively advertised sugar as a healthy weight loss and diet aid.
I am not sure if it is my love for sociology and psychology or my curious fascination for how others live and express themselves. But I love to look at crazy inventions, foods, culture, and old letters and documents of other people different from...
These amazing images are believed to have been captured by New York photographer Matthew Brady in the 1840s and feature elderly people who had all been born in the 1700s.
The internets may be full of WTF, but the library did it first. Judge A Book By Its Cover - Virgin Mobile
These fascinating pictures are some of the first ever taken of the city of Bristol. They were taken between 1850 and 1855 by photographer Hugh Owen and could fetch up to £30,000 at auction.
Today we'd like for you to take a look at an Instagram account by the name of "The History Atlas". This page collects interesting and unseen historic images and shares them with its whopping 81K followers on the platform.
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We've worked long and hard here at Cracked to make it clear that the past was badass. All you have to do is sift through old-timey photos, and you quickly realize that people back then possessed neither sanity nor a sense of self-preservation.
Near the Ossians Hall, Birnam & Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland
Gobekli Tepe has been dated to about 11,500 years old, and is located in Urfa, Sothern Turkey, quite close to the border with Syria. It’s believed that the temples were built by the last hunt…
The photos in this collection will show you just how amazing it was in the past. The saying goes, “you have to see it to believe” and that’s exactly what these images prove.
Do you know what it means to make a joyful noise daily? It's not always related to singing. This 1-minute explains.
Chess fans are undoubtedly familiar with the statistics, the myths and the rumours surrounding the Polgár sisters, but how many of us really know the true story of the family? For four years, an Israeli film-maker has collected archive material never seen before, and produced a documentary for Israeli TV that is epic and historic, but also personal and intimate. Watch the trailer.
Photos of the past, when viewed out of context, are bizarre and/or terrifying. And in many cases, adding the context just makes them worse.
People of the past are daring us to make sense of them, and once again, we've risen boldly to the challenge.
Because Iris Apfel is the just the tip of the geriatric-chic iceberg.
German scientists have announced after almost 26 years of research that the bones interred for centuries at Aachen Cathedral are likely to be those of Charlemagne, King of the Franks.
Last week construction work began on the Shakespeare North Playhouse, a replica inspired by the Bard on the site of an old council car park in the small town of Prescot in Knowsley
“I believe that old photographs develop a special character. It’s a unique sheen imbued by the passage of time. Looking through these photographs today, four decades later, I find myself transported to a very different era, almost a different country.” – Robin Weaver In the 1970s Robin Weaver was a newspaper photographer in South … Continue reading "South Wales in The 1970s"
Gobekli Tepe has been dated to about 11,500 years old, and is located in Urfa, Sothern Turkey, quite close to the border with Syria. It’s believed that the temples were built by the last hunt…
The ascent of the column Morris, Paris, France in 1957 Photo Robert Doisneau
When the Vikings were not at war, Scandinavian society was deeply concerned about their criminal behaviour; 'mugshot' descriptions read like a 'precursor of Crimewatch'.
Volkswagen, Drummond sweaters and Kellogg's all feature in the collection of men groping their wives, treading on them and blowing smoke in their faces.
Представљамо вам фотографије које је направио Огист Леон. Оне приказују начин живота Срба из периода 1913. године.
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Did he, and other Vikings, really use a brutal method of ritual execution called the "blood eagle"?
We've worked long and hard here at Cracked to make it clear that the past was badass. All you have to do is sift through old-timey photos, and you quickly realize that people back then possessed neither sanity nor a sense of self-preservation.
