Attention history teachers everywhere: If you want to wake those sleeping kids, show them these 15 rare photos from the past. Yes, they could get a thousand words from the textbook, but wouldn’t you rather engage them with these historical photos?
1. Einstein at Nassau Point, Long Island, New York in the summer of 1939.
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2. The unbroken seal On Tutankhamen’s Tomb, 1922 (3,245 years untouched).
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3. A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to a co-worker after he contacted a high voltage wire in 1967.
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4. He stood alone, refusing to join the Nazi salute in 1936.
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5. Sweden switched to driving on the right side of the road in 1967. This was the result on the first morning.
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6. This Austrian boy got a new pair of shoes in World War II.
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7. A random but poignant soldier in Vietnam, 1965.
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8. 106-year-old Armenian woman guards her home in 1990.
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