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  • Some of the best historical photos, images, maps and graphics that we have found on the web and in books. This history by picture is history as you have not seen it before. Enjoy!

    Daily History Picture: Unicorn Raising December 23, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Unicorn Raising

    The Ravenhearts raise a unicorn…

    Daily History Picture: Communists on Holiday December 22, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Communists on Holiday

    The Rosenbergs on holiday in happier times.

    Daily History Picture: Amerindians against Conquistadors December 21, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Amerindians against Conquistadors

    Image from the Tlaxcalan Cortez. What are the animals?

    Daily History Picture: Tea Drinking Brit Soldier December 18, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Tea Drinking Brit Soldier

    British soldier fighting south in Burma

    Daily History Picture: Squirrel Love December 17, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Squirrel Love

    Marvellous illuminated squirrels…

    Daily History Picture: Time Square December 16, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Time Square

    Time Square with wires….

    Daily History Picture: The Phallus Tree December 15, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: The Phallus Tree

    Interesting folklore here… A phallus nest or a phallus tree? Usually connected with witchcraft not nuns…

    Daily History Picture: Waiting in the Trenches December 14, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Waiting in the Trenches

    Aussies at Gallipoli

    Daily History Picture: Postwar Courtship December 11, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Postwar Courtship

    British soldier with French girls

    Daily History Picture: Unicorn Dies December 10, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Unicorn Dies

    The death of a unicorn at the hands of a bear (?)

    Daily History Picture: Icons and Computers December 9, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Icons and Computers

    Sorry again…

    Daily History Picture: Old and Young December 8, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Old and Young

    Civil war veteran on the steps of a jet engine…

    Daily History Picture: The Viking Method December 7, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: The Viking Method

    Apologies….

    Daily History Picture: Shipwreck Coming December 4, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Shipwreck Coming

    Wilhelm Gustloff setting off, 1945: all will die. [should be ‘most will die’] 22 Dec 2015: Lanark writes in, The amazing thing about the Wilhelm Gustloff was that they didn’t all die… despite the ship being sunk in minus 18 degree temperatures in January in the Baltic. Over 1200 survivors were pulled from the water by three rescue ships […]

    Daily History Picture: Electrocution December 3, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Electrocution

    William Kemmler, first man legally executed in the chair