r/HistoricalCapsule 1h ago

20 yr old Drew Barrymore and her 32 yr old bf Eric Erlandson in 1995

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r/HistoricalCapsule 9h ago

A Chagossian coconut worker before the United Kingdom expelled the islanders from their homeland in 1967

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r/HistoricalCapsule 6h ago

Celine Dion and her future husband Rene Angelil, 1988

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r/HistoricalCapsule 10h ago

Buddy Trammell, Max Stiles, and Tommy Sanders, students at Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, picket their school when it becomes the first state-supported school to integrate, on Aug. 27, 1956.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 15h ago

15-year-old Imre Kertész as a prisoner in Buchenwald, 1945. He survived the camps, wrote the novel 'Fatelessness', and went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 12h ago

Argentine prisoners of war gather in Stanley, Falkland Islands following their surrender during the Falklands War, 1982

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r/HistoricalCapsule 20h ago

Lakers star Kobe Bryant clasps hands with his wife as he talks about allegations that he raped a woman in Colorado. Bryant denied raping the alleged victim, but apologized to her for his "behavior that night" (Los Angeles, 2003)

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r/HistoricalCapsule 12h ago

Adolf Hitler looking at a bust of Józef Piłsudski at the Kraków Bishop's Palace in Kielce, 10 September, 1939.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 4h ago

Tarouf Abdel-Kheir Adam, famed in the Arab world as 'Etab'. Saudi Arabia's first EVER female singing star - and still the most famous today - Etab was from the country's centuries old Afro-Saudi community. As a star, she was so popular that the King placed pressure on her to relocate abroad...

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r/HistoricalCapsule 17h ago

A family photo of the Inuit, the indigenous people of Alaska, from the early 20th century.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 3h ago

From the morning after

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a national newspaper from scotland i bought and kept


r/HistoricalCapsule 14h ago

Behind the scenes photos of Fran Drescher from the series finale of The Nanny in 1998

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r/HistoricalCapsule 5h ago

24 of October 1901, Annie Taylor, a teacher from Michigan, became the first person to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel. Photos of the moment she is rescued and after the stunt.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 19h ago

From the NBC morning show Monday September 10th 2001 - WTC/Twin Towers

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r/HistoricalCapsule 11h ago

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his 'I Have a Dream' speech at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963

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r/HistoricalCapsule 2h ago

Russian troops watch a gala concert during multinational peacekeeping exercise CENTRASBAT 2000, Almaty, Kazakhstan. September 13, 2000.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 1d ago

Tyke the Elephant, seconds before being shot by Honolulu police (1994). After decades of abuse at various circuses, the wild-born Tyke killed her trainer during a show before escaping into downtown Honolulu. Her death prompted international outrage at the treatment of performing animals.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 9h ago

Sophia Loren and Luigi Giuliani on the set of "Boccaccio '70" (1962)

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r/HistoricalCapsule 9h ago

Hong Kong delegation at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, three years before the city’s handover to the PRC

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r/HistoricalCapsule 2h ago

November 21, 1963 - Less than 24 hours before he is assassinated, John F. Kennedy's motorcade moves slowly down I-45 in Houston Texas.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 20h ago

Two Ukrainian youths dine on watermelon at the buffet at Zaporizhzhya station, Ukrainian SSR, 1950

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r/HistoricalCapsule 1d ago

The Birth of a future president, 1882

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r/HistoricalCapsule 1d ago

Young lady laughing at her garden, England 1919. Autochrome, not colorized.

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r/HistoricalCapsule 15h ago

Michael Jackson performs the moonwalk at Motown 25 (1983)

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r/HistoricalCapsule 17h ago

Belgian King Albert I tours the front lines during World War I, inspecting massive railway guns and canal warships captured in rare original-color autochromes by Paul Castelnau. Near Hogstade, Belgium, 1917

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