Some Crazy images from the Past 🧵
1. Once upon a time
2. Bahadur Shah II (the last Mughal emperor), just after his trial and before his departure for exile in Burma in 1858. This is possibly the only photograph ever taken of a Mughal emperor.
3. While studying late night, students of University of Madras used to tie their hair to a nail in the wall to keep themselves awake, in 1948.
4. Twenty-nine of history’s most famous scientific minds in one photo, including Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and quantum scientist Niels Bohr, in 1927.
5. Sarla Thakral was only 21-year-old when she became the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license, in 1936.
6. Three Female Students Walk In The City Of Kabul, Afghanistan, 1972
7. Buddhas of Bamiyan
8. The very first computer in England, in 1959
9. Vladimir Putin dancing with his classmate Elena, durning a party
10. Charlie Chaplin and Mahatma Gandhi
11. Phoolan Devi, The Bandit Queen of India, early 1980s
12. Crew of Apollo 11 enjoying breakfast before departing for the moon , on 16 July . 1969
13. The famous canals in Venice being drained and cleaned, 1956..
14. In 1849, to escape 33 y of his life as a slave, Henry "Box" Brown shipped himself in cargobox from Richmond, Virginia, to t abolitionist zone,Philadelphia.
Henry Brown completed t 350-mile journey, barely breathing through the air holes he pierced in his 60-c.m-wide cargo box
15. Downtown Los Angeles Photographed In 1901, And Again In 2001, Exactly 100 Years Later.
16. Hitler rehearsing his speeches in front of the mirror, in 1925.
17. George W. Bush being told about 9/11.
18. Barack Obama with his friend Sohale Siddiqi, in Karachi (Pakistan), in 1981.
19. A. R. Rahman and Zakir Hussain, before they made it big.
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