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While you're reading a history article, the only thing that can help you to picture a certain historic scenario is your imagination. But if there's a photo in there, your situation is totally different. It shows you how something actually looked, it helps you understand that specific moment more intimately. Be it a historical landmark, a famous person or random photo of the past - they all have amazing stories behind them. And some of 'em haunt you forever.

I'm pretty sure most of you've seen Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph of an American sailor kissing a woman in Times Square. It most definitely became the symbol of the joy and excitement at the end of World War II. 

Or take this one, for instance.

Have you seen the Prestige?

The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967

Dorothy Counts - The First Black Girl To Attend An All White School In The United States - Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957

The look on her face. Do you think she had the guts to b***h slap those boys?  

First Morning After Sweden Changed From Driving On The Left Side To Driving On The Right, 1967

Wounded Combat Dog During Action On The Orote Peninsula, 1944

 The Last Public Execution By Guillotine, 1939

Becha s/he said, ''Let them eat cake.'' And the mob was like, ''Off with your head!''

Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931

Carving Eye On Mount Rushmore, 1930s.

That fedora, though.