20 rare old photos: moments of history, witnesses of time
(1) Beginning in 1950, the United States conducted a real-life nuclear test in the Nevada desert. 6,500 soldiers who did not know the truth were used as test subjects. After the bomb exploded, these soldiers not only practiced various tactics, but also went to the center to retrieve the measuring instruments.
Many of these soldiers who were exposed to radiation during the nuclear test later suffered from thyroid cancer, leukemia and other diseases, but most of them did not receive any compensation until they died. It wasn't until 1990, after most of the soldiers had died, that George H.W. Bush announced $75,000 in compensation for each soldier who participated in the experiment, and few were still alive at that time. The photo below shows paratroopers participating in the test watching the nuclear explosion.
(2) In 1980, the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Moscow. The 22nd Summer Olympic Games were held in Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, from July 19 to August 3, 1980, and for the first time in history, the Games were held in a socialist country.
(3) In 1894, the day the statue of Antinous was discovered in Delphi, Greece. (This photo has been digitally colorized)
(4) A Vietnamese girl escorts a captured American pilot.
(5) Tourists drink tea at the top of an Egyptian pyramid in 1938.
(6) Hitler believed that a Jew's nose was larger than that of an Aryan, so he measured a person's nose to determine whether he was Jew.
(7) A young Norwegian bride in a traditional wedding dress, 1904.
(8) An Arab woman wearing a traditional mask in Muscat, the capital of Oman, in 1905.
(9) Women's boxing on the roof, 1938.
(10) In 1903, a man was riding a pig at the Wagfield Zoo in England.
(11) In 1931, the Blade Thrower's wife was in a performance.
(12) A hundred years ago, a farmer was squatting at the door of his house playing cotton, and you could see that this was a very poor family, not only because the clothes were not well worn, but also because the walls of the house were peeling off in many places.
(13) The woman in the photo is the daughter of the ninth Prince of Su, Longyan, and sitting on her right is her husband Gongsang Norbu, who was an educator, politician, and poet in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
(14) This is a temple somewhere in the south of the Yangtze River, where one day in 1869 a monk was supervising the repair of the outer wall of the temple, which had been partially destroyed during the recent Taiping Rebellion.
(15) Al Capone (right), the most influential gangster of the last century, during a game in Chicago on October 10, 1931.
(16) In 1926, a female firefighter in London, England.
(17) Indians on horseback archery, 1908.
(18) 1904, children in the Netherlands.
(19) Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Princess Grace Kelly at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
(20) Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Jesse Owens is a black American track and field star and sprinter. He was born on September 12, 1913 in a family of cotton farmers in Alabama, southern America, to a family of black slave descendants. He has been hailed as "the best track and field athlete of the century".