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Historium is a podcast about interesting, mysterious, and obscure true stories from history. Produced by Jake Barton
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18/07/2022

A propaganda poster placed around mirrors in US Army barracks during the Second World War.

15/07/2022

Model Ginger Stanley working with an underwater camera at Silver Springs, Florida in 1950. [Colorized]

12/07/2022

The first full-color image of deep space by the James Webb Space Telescope revealed by NASA. The first of many more to come…

07/07/2022

Five year old Harold Whittles, born deaf, hears something for the very first time. This photograph was taken seconds after the doctor connected a revolutionary computer micro-processor hearing aid. 1970s.

29/06/2022

Soviet sniper Semyon Nomokonov, credited with 367 confirmed kills and nicknamed ‘Taiga Shaman,’ with his famous smoking pipe. [Colorized]

28/06/2022

A sunbather pointing to a sign allowing her to go topless at Spring Lake Beach. However, the sign was aimed at male sunbathers. New Jersey 1939.

28/06/2022

Wounded soldiers returning from D-Day arrive at a hospital ship off of Normandy’s shore in June of 1944. [Colorized]

27/06/2022

After the Chernobyl meltdown, Fidel Castro took in 24,000 Soviet children from the disaster area so that they could better recover from the effects of radiation in a warm, tropical climate in Cuba. The entire operation cost Cuba over $350 million, and despite the fact that Cuba was shut off from trading with the Western world, they never asked to be reimbursed by the USSR.

26/06/2022

A tram at a stop near Embankment Tube Station one foggy London night in 1938. [Colorized]

25/06/2022

Children playing in the snow in Hankou, China in March of 1938.

22/06/2022

Mexican Revolutionary soldiers in 1911. [Colorized by ]

21/06/2022

The Palais Garnier, an enormous opera house in Paris photographed from an air balloon in 1880.

14/06/2022

Michael Jordan's iconic 'Free Throw Line' dunk—a big reason for his nickname "Air" Jordan—in 1988.

13/06/2022

A Soviet helicopter pilot feeding bears from his cockpit in Kamchatka in 1962.

12/06/2022

The Bradford City stadium fire in West Yorkshire, England in 1985. 56 people died and over 250 were injured from a fire that started from a cigarette thrown in a trash can that spread to the timber-constructed stands.

12/06/2022

A player on a high school basketball team shooting a free throw during a game in Atlanta in 1921.

10/06/2022

A Soviet tank entering the bombed out town of Sevastopol in Crimea. May 9th, 1944. [Colorized]

10/06/2022

Daredevil Evil Knievel right before impact during one of his many crashes. London, England. May 26th, 1975.

08/06/2022

Theodore Roosevelt on his horse in Montauk, along Island in 1898. Later that year, he would assemble the Rough Riders to fight in the Spanish-American War. [Colorized by Marina Maral]

06/06/2022

George Lucas and Mark Hamill on the set of the original Star Wars in Tunisia in 1976.

03/06/2022

Women with their instruments prior to a parade in South Dakota in 1898. [Colorized]

03/06/2022

US Marines in Peiping, China ready for deployment to lift the siege of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in June of 1900.

01/06/2022

Thousands of German soldiers stand at attention at the 1938 Nuremberg N**i rally. Hi**er would order the invasion of Poland the very next year. [Colorized]

28/05/2022

Ethiopian delegates to the coronation of King Edward VII. London, August 1902.

26/05/2022

A plainclothes police officer jumping into a swimming pool to arrest a group of black and white integrationists in a segregated pool at the Monsoon Motor Lodge in Saint Augustine, Florida. June 18th, 1964. [Colorized]

25/05/2022

A British airman dropping bombs by hand during the First World War in 1916.

25/05/2022

An old woman eating a hamburger at Moscow’s first McDonalds after the fall of the USSR in 1990.

24/05/2022

Commuters in New York City on the evening of November 22nd, 1963.

22/05/2022

Reporters and photographers watching an atomic detonation near Yucca Lake, Nevada. April 22nd, 1952. [Colorized]

19/05/2022

The Polish Army performing cavalry maneuvers in the late 1930s.

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