Iconic History’s RAREST Moments
Robert McGee, scalped at 14 by Kiowa warriors in 1864, became a sideshow attraction for years after.
An Iranian amateur bodybuilder poses with his homemade weights in the 1920s.
Nuns intently observe a fashionable woman in the 1960s.
High school students enjoy a stroll through a Detroit park in July 1942.
A grim photo shows the charred remains of a prisoner attempting to escape a barn set ablaze by Volkssturm and Hitler Youth, Germany, April 1945.
French soldiers stand in Germany during the 1923 occupation of the Ruhr.
The Battle of Guadalcanal during WWII, August 7th, 1942.
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov discusses the USSR joining the Axis powers with Adolf Hitler, 1940.
Soviet and Nazi soldiers converse after their joint invasion of Poland, 1939.
A young Japanese couple captures a mirror selfie in the 1920s.
Three boys fish for change in New York, 1930s.
Czechoslovak students participate in an air raid drill amidst rising tensions with Germany, May 1938.
Hungarian anti-Czechoslovakia protestors in Budapest during the Sudeten Crisis, September 1938, holding photos of leaders advocating dismemberment.
Cashiers at a Netherlands supermarket, June 1985, provided with chairs as an employee right under 'right-to-sit' laws.
A Catholic missionary comforts a starving boy in Karamoja, Uganda, 1980.
Soviet soldiers recreate Marshal Ney's famous charge for the film 'Waterloo,' 1969.
Life magazine captured Malcolm X holding an M1 Carbine in March 1964, following death threats from the Nation of Islam after he exposed Elijah Muhammed.
HMS Eagle sinks after being hit by four torpedoes, while a merchant ship from the Pedestal Convoy continues onwards, 11 August 1942.
A poignant image of a young nuclear bomb victim holding a rice ball in Nagasaki, August 10, 1945.
Paleontologists Sue Hendrickson and Peter Larson pose with the skull of 'Sue' the T-Rex, August 1990.
Union boss Jimmy Hoffa gestures defiantly at Robert Kennedy during the Teamster Hearings, 1957.
A 'Wake Up, America!' celebration on Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1917, opposite the Union League Club reviewing stand.
Aircraft carriers HMS Eagle, Indomitable, and Victorious, assigned to Operation Pedestal, likely during training exercises (Operation Beserk), August 3-10, 1942.
Pierre Laval, former Vichy French Prime Minister, passionately defends himself during his treason trial at the Palais de Justice, Paris, August 1945. He was found guilty and executed in October.
Two sailors asleep on a San Francisco street after celebrating Victory over Japan, August 15, 1945.
The 1994 Nobel Peace Prize winners: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin.
Artist Bruce Larsen confronts a Ku Klux Klan member at an Alabama rally in 1986, making a defiant gesture while stating, 'This is America and it is for everybody.'
Japanese riot police consume rationed cup noodles during the Asama-Sanso Incident, a 1972 hostage crisis involving the United Red Army.
A German Waffen-SS soldier captured by US forces during the Normandy campaign, 1944.
