Monday, July 14, 2014

60 Rare Photos Will Destroy Everything You Knew About The Past



These stunning photos reveal relationships and sides of famous people you've never seen before and capture the essence of eras that have come and gone. I'm sure more than a few of these will surprise you...and some might even make you laugh.


Barack Obama on his high school basketball team


Arnold Schwarzenegger in New York for the first time in 1968


Bill Gates' mug shot for driving without a license 1977


Muhammad Ali talking someone out of jumping - 1981


Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer, Ip, in Beverly Hills, CA -1958.


Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger - 1969


Madonna, Sting and Tupac hanging out.


Paul McCartney, John Lennon & George Harrison performing at a wedding reception, 1958.


The Rolling Stones circa 1963


Ernest Hemingway's passport photo - 1923



President FDR's funeral in 1945


Robin Williams dressed like a cheerleader - 1980


The original Star Wars cast seen just before filming


Cameramen recording the lion roar for the MGM logo


Elton John at the piano bar aboard his private plane - 1976


Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein


Queen Elizabeth during her WWII service.


Elijah Wood & Macaulay Culkin - 1993


John Travolta & Olivia Newton John rehearsing for "GREASE"


A young Osama Bin Laden with his family in Sweden during the 1970s. Bin Laden is second from the right in a green shirt and blue pants.



Diane Keaton and Al Pacino on set for The Godfather 1972


Steven Spielberg and Drew Barrymore on set of E.T


Bruce Lee dancing


Actors portraying President John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe and their rumored affair

For the past 40 years, Americans has been enthralled by rumors that Kennedy never gave up his playboy lifestyle, even after marriage and his presidency. These photos, created by photographer Alison Jackson with look-alikes, portray what someone may have seen from the night Monroe performed ‘Happy Birthday Mr. President’ at JFK’s 45th birthday at Madison Square Garden.
Osama Bin Laden after practicing judo


Hachiko before his burial in 1935

The Japanese dog was famous for his incredible loyalty. His owner passed away and didn't come home on his usual train one evening in 1925. Hachiko returned to the station every day and waited for him to come home for 9 years until his own death.
The Beatles and Ali - 1964


Martin Luther King Jr, and Marlon Brando


Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee


Steve Jobs sitting with Bill Gates discussing the future of computing in 1991.



Adam West (Batman) & Leonard Nemoy (Spock) goof around on a drumset


Amelia Earhart getting her last haircut - 1937


Early drawings by Walt Disney of Mickey Mouse



The US-built ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was one of the first computer ever made



Marathon Runners at the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens, Greece - 1896



The first Walmart store opened in 1962



Golden Gate bridge construction - 1937



Fidel Castro and Malcolm X discussing politics and family - 1960



Vladimir Putin as a teenager (2nd from the left, in a hat)



Marilyn Monroe meets Queen Elizabeth II - 1956



Steven Hawking with his bride, Jane Wilde



Robert Downey Jr. and Slash



Hilter as the best man in Joseph Goebbels wedding



Last concert of Beatles on a London rooftop - 1969



George Armstrong Custer and some of his fellow soldiers, during the American Civil War. [Colorized]



Norway celebrates the first ever banana arriving in the country


Alan Shepard, America's first man in space, puts on his Navy Mark IV spacesuit.


Marilyn Monroe and Sammy Davis, Jr.


Howard Carter, an English archaeologist, examining the opened sarcophagus of King Tut.


Che Guevara and Fidel Castro



Mt Rushmore construction - 1939



A young Johnny Depp with Oasis



Sean Connery as James Bond, poses with Aston Martin DB5 - 1965



Elvis Presley during his service in the U.S. Army - 1958



Construction of Eiffel Tower in 1880


William Harley and Arthur Davidson, 1914 -- The Founders of Harley Davidson Motorcycles



Pablo Picasso & Brigitte Bardot - 1956



A young Bill Clinton meets John F. Kennedy



Frank Sinatra asks Lou Gehrig for an autograph in 1939


Steven Spielberg sits in the mechanical shark used in JAWS





source: http://news.distractify.com/culture/x-history-photos/?v=1
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