Last updated on February 19th, 2024 at 10:52 pm
History is more than just innovations and triumphs. In truth, much of it involves numerous instances of brutality, warfare, genocide, and other unsettling, regrettable realities.
Take a look below at some of the most haunting moments from history.
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A photographer accidentally captures the moment a person jumped off a bridge in China
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American free diver Nicholas Mevoli moments before he passed away after a botched dive.
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Joseph Goebbels glares at Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1933.
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Man falling from the top of the WTC on 9/11
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Starving children during 1921–1922 Russian famine.
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Anne Frank’s father Otto, revists the attic where he and his family hid.
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A slave named Peter, exposed the damage to his back
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Replica dog tags of every soldier who never made it back from Vietnam.
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