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These Awesome Photos Will Change The Way You Think About History!

We all think we’ve got a pretty good idea of what’s gone down in modern history, don’t we? Sure, we’re no experts but we’ve heard most of the big things. But hearing and reading what’s happened in modern and cultural history is one thing – but seeing them for yourself is something else.

Okay, okay, we can’t jump back in the past and actually experience things but we can check out some really rare photos from the past century or so and get a great sense of what things were like.

Enjoy and share this cracking collection of pretty rare and unusual pictures. We know we certainly did!

Let’s start with Arnie’s first day in the States, 1968. Decades later the Austrian would be Governor of California.

Arnie

 

Here’s Alan Shephard – the first American in space – preparing for orbit.

Astronaut

 

The Beatles meet Ali.

Beatles and Ali

 

Then years later play this classic gig upon a rooftop.

Beatles

 

Here’s JFK meeting a young Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton

 

An early snap of an arrested Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Bill Gates

 

Martial arts practice. The guy on the right? Osama bin Laden.

Bin Laden Karate

 

Classic Bond.

Bond

 

Bruce Lee meets… CHUCK NORRIS.

Bruce Lee

 

South American revolutionaries meet: Fidel Castro from Cuba and Che Guevara from t-shirts.

Che

 

Here’s Robin Williams cheerleading!

Cheerleading Photo

 

Legendary beauty Marilyn Monroe and entertainer great Sammy Davis Jnr. lark by a car.

Cool Car Photo

 

Castro again – looking like Liam Neeson – chats politics with Malcolm X.

Cool Old Photograph

 

Muhammed Ali talks down a suicidal guy from a building.

Cool Photo

 

An early shot of Bruce Lee.

Dancing Photo

 

Very early Mickey Mouse sketches from Walt Disney’s drawing pad.

Early Mickey Mouse

 

The Eiffel Tower in construction.

Eiffell Tower

 

Albert Einstein and a moustacheless Charlie Chaplin.

Einstein and Chaplin

 

Elvis – called up by the US Army.

Elvis Army Photo

 

Bill Gates and his future rival – Apple’s original ‘genius’, Steve Jobs.

Gates and Jobs

 

Behind the scenes of The Godfather.

Godfather

 

The Golden Gate Bridge being constructed.

Golden Gate Bridge

 

Marlon Brando – ever the serious man – talks civil rights with Martin Luther King.

Malcolm X and Brando

 

Barack Obama on his high school basketball team.

Obama Basketball

 

William Harley and Arthur Davidson sat atop two of their legendary creations in 1914.

Old Bikes

 

Russian bigwig Vladimir Putin as a teenager.

Old Photo

 

HRH The Queen during her military service no less.

Queen Army

 

And here’s The Queen meeting the queen of Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe.

Queen Photo

 

The Rolling Stones before they were famous.

Rolling Stones

 

Guns n’ Roses guitarist hangs out with future star Robert Downey Jr.

Slash

 

Building Mt. Rushmore in the late ’30s.

Sweet Photo

 

Batman Adam West hits the skins.

West and Nimoy

How cool were they, eh? It was like a potted history of the past hundred years of pop culture. Fantastic. If you’ve a pal that you know would get a kick out of seeing Karate Osama or would cheer to see Robin Williams in drag, why not share this post with them?

What do you think?

Written by Boredom Bash

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