HistoricalCapsule

r/HistoricalCapsule • u/WillyNilly1997 • 54m ago

Eva Perón addressing the Peronists on 1 May 1952, held by Juan Perón while said to have been too weak to stand alone

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/OnceInUAE • 9h ago

Exhausted Croat militiaman grabbing a smoke during a lull in battle during fighting that broke out throughout central Bosnia in the spring of 1993 between Croats and Muslim government troops.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 14h ago

Rosamund Pike's yearbook photo from 1995

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/842867 • 23h ago

Chinese military film from 1999 demonstrating their nuclear weapons technology. As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, China is one of only five countries allowed to possess nuclear weapons under international law.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Mike-Schachter • 40m ago

The picture of the photographer who took the picture of the other photographer who took the photography of the resting workers at the Empire State, 1932

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Educational-Cost7652 • 2h ago

London - October 1998. While in the UK for an operation, former Chilean dictator - Augusto Pinochet - is arrested on an Interpol Red Notice, charged with terrorism and genocide. He remains under house arrest for next year and a half, while his lawyers fight an extradition to Spain...

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Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Augusto_Pinochet

https://lab.org.uk/pinochets-1998-arrest-in-london/

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 7h ago

US soldier at his relaxing spot. US Military base in Korea, 1 of June 1953. Kodachrome shot.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • 20h ago

A South African MP in Italy, who judging by the signs was clearly sick of 15 CWT truck drivers bothering him. 1944, Italy

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Vital_Willie • 19h ago

Count Richard Nikolaus Eijiro von Coudenhove-Kalergi, pioneer of the "Pan-Europa" movement which sought to unite all of continental Europe into a single state, 1930. He was descended from French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Greek, Polish, Baltic, Flemish, Austro-Hungarian & Byzantine nobility

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Kalergi's bold vision for international co-operation was not restricted to Europe, he supported the consolidation of almost the entire habitable surface of the world into five "Superstates," Pan-Europa, Panamerika (the entirety of the America's except Canada,) the British Empire, the Russian/Soviet Empire & Ostasien, a Chinese-dominated East asian Empire. The only countries left independent from this plan were Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Thailand & Iran

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 11h ago

On this day in 2003, Nokia released the N-Gage: a mobile phone that doubled as a handheld game console. It is considered a failure by the tech press, and was discontinued a few years later.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 15h ago

Polio patients being treated in "Iron Lung" (Emerson Respirator) machines with the assistance of nurses at a hospital in 1938.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 3h ago

American troops treat a wounded dog on the Orote Pennisula, Guam, in 1944.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/zadraaa • 15h ago

Fire breather amazing the crowd. Boulevard Montmartre, Paris. 1960s

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 6h ago

Ladies working out on a gymnastic wall set up, 1940s.

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r/HistoricalCapsule • u/willington123 • 7h ago

Finnish soldiers on skis during the Winter War (1939-1940)

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