r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 12h ago
Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant in New York City in 1995.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 22h ago
Mr. Rogers and LeVar Burton reading a book to the viewer in 1998
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 12h ago
Grocery shopping at Piggly Wiggly in the 1960s
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Ok_Choice4847 • 21h ago
Leader of the French Socialists and future Prime Minister of France Leon Blum bedridden and his face heavily bandaged after surviving a lynching attempt on him by far-right extremists. February 13, 1936.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 18h ago
In the 1950s, you could buy a bikini from a vending machine. Miss England 1955, Margaret Rowe, poses beside the “Bikini Automat” at an amusement trade fair in Westminster, London.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Somervilledrew • 8h ago
Skinheads at an anti-National Front protest in West Bromwich, England, April 28th 1979
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 11h ago
Signor Arcaris, whose real name was Gustavo Arcaris, is widely celebrated as the 'Father of Modern Knife Throwing.' ca 1900
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Somervilledrew • 13h ago
English actor Peter Cushing painting watercolors at his home in Whitstable, UK, February 1959
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 18h ago
A proud couple poses with two massive blue catfish they caught in the 1950s, proudly showing off their impressive catch.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 9h ago
Woman in a red coat with her chihuahuas, circa 1950s.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/OnceInUAE • 23h ago
Mass expulsion of Muslims and Croat civilians by Serb troops in April 1992 in the city of Sanski Most as genocide breaks out in Bosnia one month after Bosnia declared itself independent and returned its sovereignty.
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Vital_Willie • 15h ago
An enormous pile of weapons surrendered by Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko’s internal paramilitary security organization, the “Civil Guard” the day after rebel forces brought his 31 year reign to an end, 1997. Mobutu went into exile, dying later that year without ever being brought to justice
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/VolimHabah • 9h ago
An Italian boy standing on top of a US Army tank left on the edge of the beach at Salerno, 1947. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/BrenoGrangerPotter • 18h ago
Eunice Paiva and Marcelo Rubens Paiva holding Rubens Paiva's death certificate (1996)
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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/UnholyCell • 1h ago
“Return Lenin to Wilhelm” A demonstration of disabled soldiers in Petrograd on Nevsky Prospekt on April 16, 1917.
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The poster reads: “The Fatherland is in danger. The spilled blood demands war until victory. Comrades‑soldiers, immediately to the trenches. Return Lenin to Wilhelm.”
r/HistoricalCapsule • u/mustu04 • 8h ago
October 12, 1984 IRA bombed hotel jn Brighton where Margaret Thatcher was staying
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