Weird And Unique Historical Photos Taken Between 1910-1960

The telepath tries to hypnotize the chimpanzee, 1941.

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The tactical trick of soldiers during the Mexican Revolution, 1913.

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Soviet cryptographer Igor Guzenko, 1945. In this photo, he hid his face for an interview with Soul Pett from the Associated Press. Guzenko worked at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa and fled to the West in 1945. He brought more than a hundred classified documents and information from the Soviet spy network in Canada; 29 spies were arrested and convicted afterwards. Guzenko received an impressive reward, a mansion, and political asylum.

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Soldiers of the British Royal Horse Artillery on pack horses. The animals turned out to be so obedient that they allowed the soldiers to perform tricks like these, 1915.

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Robert Kennedy and West Berlin Mayor Willie Brandt look through the Berlin Wall, February 22, 1962.

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Marcia Pinkenfield, six months old, who won a very unusual competition and was chosen as the most beautiful child in America, in 1927.

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Italian traveler Attilio Gatti with two hired pygmies and a gorilla caught by them in the Belgian Congo, 1930.

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Exercises at the Sint Willibrordus mental hospital. Netherlands, Henk Blansjaar, 14 February 1956.

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Faces of war. A banquet for French soldiers who received grievous injuries during WWI, Henri Manuel, Paris, 1925.

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The expiration date has passed. Billy, the elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo, was shot. Old elephants can become uncontrollable, and the zoo staff decided to protect themselves. 1939.

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