Thread of historical photos you've (probably) never seen before 🧵
1. "A few seconds before happiness"
2. The Kiss of Life
Randall Champion accidentally touched a high-voltage line, electrifying himself & stopping his heart. A fellow linemen J.D. Thompson performed CPR until paramedics arrived. Champion survived and lived until 2002. The photo won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968.
3. Princess Diana in Portofino, Italy, a week before her death. August 1997.
4. The first photo shows heart surgeon Dr. Zbigniew Religa resting after performing the first successful heart transplant in Poland in 1987.
This groundbreaking surgery lasted 23 hours, pushing the boundaries of medical expertise and technology at the time.
The photo also captures a glimpse of his assistant, who can be seen sleeping in the corner.
The bottom photo, taken 25 years later, features Tadeusz Zitkevits, the recipient of the heart transplant. The patient died in 2017 (30 years after the surgery) and he outlived Dr. Religa, who died in 2009.
5. The last photo (colorized) of Hachiko, the faithful dog who waited for over 9 years outside Shibuya Station for his master to return even after he had died.
6. The couple on the Woodstock album cover, still together 50 years later.
7. In front of the world's media, Princess Diana shook the hand of an AIDS victim with no gloves on, publicly challenging the notion that HIV/Aids was passed from person to person by touch.
This event was instrumental in trying to end the stigma against the disease.
8. Soldier’s face before and after the war, 1941-1945
9. Shooting the original MGM logo, 1928
10. Camberley Kate and her stray dogs in England, 1962.
She never turned a stray dog away, taking care of more than 600 dogs in her lifetime.
11. Sophia Loren at the Venice Film Festival in 1955
12. The Statue of Liberty towering over Paris just before it was disassembled and shipped to New York, 1884.
13. Policeman stops traffic just for a cat to carry its kittens across the street, New York, New York, 1925.
14. Two boys pose for a photo while drying pasta. Italy. 1929.
15. Bride leaving her recently bombed home to get married, London, 1940
16. Colorized photo of Titanic Survivors Charlotte Collyer and her 8-year-old daughter Marjorie after they finally made it back to America.
17. A woman cuts her birthday cake in Iran, 1973
18. Five-year-old Albert Einstein, 1884
19. Spanish Flu, 1918. Family portrait.
20. Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by lightning in 1971.
She fell 2 miles to the ground, was strapped to her seat, and survived 11 days alone in the Amazon Jungle until she was rescued by local fishermen. She was 17-year-old at the time.
21. Nurses showing a set of newly born triplets to a surprised father in a New York City hospital, 1946.
22. Lipstick Tester, 1960
23. Central Park, NY during the Great Depression, 1933 (original color photo)
24. Safety standards in the 1960s
25. Soldier coming home to his daughter after WWII, 1945
26. The models of "American Gothic"
27. Cornish grandmother mending her grandson's short pants, 1907.
28. One of the last known photos of the Titanic afloat, taken on April 12, 1912.
29. Artist Man Ray and his model, Kiki de Montparnasse, during the preparation of the shot "Le Violon d'Ingres", one of the most iconic photographs of the twentieth century (1924).
30. The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun's tomb, 1922 (after being untouched for approximately 3245 years).
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Thread of beautiful sculptures you (probably) didn't know existed 🧵
1. The statue of Poseidon, Gran Canaria
2. Wales was home to a tree that had lived for 124 years and reached an impressive height of 63.7 meters (209 feet). After being damaged in a storm it had to be felled.
Artist Simon O'Rourke transformed the remnants into a hand sculpture as a tribute, a final reach for the sky.
3. Ocean Atlas
At 18 feet tall and 60 tonnes, Ocean Atlas is the world's largest underwater sculpture. Created by Jason Taylor and inspired by the Greek myth of Atlas, it depicts a Bahamian girl carrying the ocean's weight.
More than 100 years before the circulatory system was first described by medical science, Michelangelo perfectly sculpted the jugular vein in his sculpture of David.
520 years ago, on September 8, 1504, the most famous statue in the world was unveiled in Florence - a thread 🧵
David was originally commissioned as one of twelve statues for the roof of Florence Cathedral.
Once completed, its perfection made it too beautiful for that spot, so it was instead placed in the public square in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, Florence’s civic seat.
At 17 feet tall and weighing 6 tons, David is not only the first colossal marble statue of the High Renaissance but also the largest since classical antiquity.
In 1873 it was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, where it’s now dusted every 2-3 months by restorers.
1. The moon emerging from the castle by Jesús Manzaneque Arteaga
2. The lord of the volcanoes by Francisco Negroni
Pucón, Chile. The Villarrica volcano is the most dangerous volcano in Chile and one of the most active in America. In the photograph, the volcano is surrounded by an electrical storm, many lightning strikes the active volcano.