alpha-soixante:

Charles II, by John Michael Wright.

c. 1660

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ourpresidents:

Happy Presidents’ Day Weekend!

Or maybe not…the official title of Monday’s holiday has actually been “George Washington’s Birthday” since its establishment in 1879. 

Never mind that this holiday hasn’t fallen on Washington’s actual birthday in nearly fifty years or that a certain 16th President also celebrates his big day this month (more on that here).  Grab a slice of cake and tip your party hats to our first President and the 43 that have come after him - including OurPresidents’ own fab thirteen!

Portraits from the Presidential Timeline, The U.S. National Archives, and whitehouse.gov.

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20thcenturypix:

Billie Holiday with drummer Sid Catlett at the Metropolitan Opera House, NYC - Photographed in January, 1944

1944

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heillhitller:

Adolf Hitler baptism certificate

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the-big-lie:

Karlsbach, Germany, A woman carrying a sign that reads: “I’m a pig - I slept with a Jew, surrounded by SS members.

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congressarchives:

John H. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth aboard the Mercury capsule Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962. This photo was taken of Glenn exiting Friendship 7, and was collected by the Senate Committee on Aeronautical Space and Science in 1965, who oversaw the operation of NASA at the time. After becoming a Senator in 1973, Glenn was invited by NASA to return to space over three decades after his first flight. Glenn became the oldest man to travel into space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on October 29, 1998.

Photo of John H. Glenn in Friendship 7, SEN 89A-F1, Records of the U.S. Senate

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Helga Goebbels, died at 12, she was poisoned by her parents along with her five siblings in Hitler’s bunker on May 1, 1945 as the Soviet Army approached and the end of the Third Reich was at hand. Her parents, Joseph and Magda then killed themselves.

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zolotoivek:

Aleksandr Kerensky greeting Czechoslovakian legionnaires in the Russian Army on the western front, 1917.

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fool-of-a-took:

May 1940, Bruges, Belgium. A Belgian woman mending the clothes of German soldiers.

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mytippetonlytulle:

Ring, c.1475-1525. Silver.

“The open shears engraved upon the bezel of this signet ring indicate that it belonged to a member of a tailor’s guild. The tools of craftsmen were often engraved upon seal matrices and signet rings to indicate membership of the guild and thus to confer status upon the wearer.
A large group of similar rings from Germany and central Europe have been found, most of which are silver or bronze, and which bear the emblems of a number of different trades.”

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scripsithistoriam:

Chronicle roll of the kings of England, in French.
England; 13th century, after 1272.
[MS.] Broxb. 112.3, membrane 1 (detail).

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zwickelundkrieg:

Auschwitz, Poland, Prisoner no. 23101.

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worldwarsandjunk:

Great War hats and caps.

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