Early European coal miners. These are Italian immigrants working in a Belgium coal mine during the early 1900's @facethenation
On March 1, 1966 the Soviet probe Venera 3 🛰 successfully lands on the surface of Venus. It's the first time anything man-made object contact with an extraterrestrial surface beyond the Moon.
The 960 kg spacecraft was equipped with scientific instruments and a radio communication system. However, the communications system had failed before entry, so scientists did not receive any planetary data.
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The 960 kg spacecraft was equipped with scientific instruments and a radio communication system. However, the communications system had failed before entry, so scientists did not receive any planetary data.
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Al Capone with his son at a baseball game. Note the watchfulness of one of his bodyguards behind him. A pop-corn vendor touched his shoulder and he looks ready to protect his chief @facethenation
On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson shot his famous footage of a Bigfoot in California. Could Bigfoot be real, and was this finally the evidence that proved it? @facethenation
Ukrainian immigrants restaurant "1203" in Washington DC giving out free borsht in celebration of Stalin's death on March 6, 1953 @facethenation
1965 Monaco Grand Prix on lap 79, there was a dramatic incident 😱 when Paul Hawkins spun his private Lotus at the chicane and went into the harbor. He survived 🙌🙌🙌 @facethenation
A 14-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger at school in 1960. He began weight training at the age of 15 and won his first amateur title in 1967 @facethenation
Ernest Hemingway served in WWI in an ambulance unit. On the night of July 8, 1918 Hemingway was wounded. Before taking care of himself, he helped Italian soldiers more seriously wounded @facethenation
Joe Frazier knocks down 🥊 Muhammad Ali in "the Fight of the Century" on March 8, 1971 @facethenation
A mountain pass during the 1925 Tour de France 🗻 🚴 Ottavio Bottecchia rides alone in the Pyrenees. He was the first Italian to win the Tour de France @facethenation
Winston Churchill on camel in front of the Sphinx in Egypt, February 15, 1921 @facethenation
Mark Twain in Nikola Tesla's laboratory, 1894. The current is being passed through the human body to bring the lamp to incandescence 💡. Tesla can be seen in the background on the left @facethenation
Australian troops, with a kangaroo mascot, onboard a ship bound for the South African War, 1900 @facethenation
It's the first big oil well in Iran and it sets off a wave of exploration, extraction and exploitation that will change the region's – and the world's – history, 1908 @facethenation
Policemen fire at a new metal bulletproof shield. 😱 The shield's inventor, Elliott Wisbrod, is the man holding it in February 1933 @facethenation