Today, you have your seat ready on a train to the past, with some of the most touching, beautiful and intriguing moments of history. Call it modern-day time travel, since these days, most of us barely have time to sit back, relax and dwell on the wonders of human history.
But thanks to this Instagram account titled A Slice Of History, which is basically a visual collection of selected historical ‘slices’, we have a whole lot to uncover. Think of Michelle and Barack Obama giggling on their wedding day in 1992, or Freddie Mercury lovingly hugging Mary Austin, and a couple of male lovers captured on camera in a photobooth in 1953; there’s something eternally beautiful about these moments.
Bored Panda also reached out to the creator behind this entertaining Instagram account to find out more about the idea behind it and what messages it spreads on social media. Scroll down for the interview below!
#1 Three Jewish Men Who Arrived At Auschwitz On The Same Day, Reunite 73 Years Later
With tattoos 10 numbers apart, they survived and went on to build families, successful businesses and live prosperous lives // Photograph taken at the Late Eye Witness Project, 2019
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#2 A Victorian Couple Try Not To Laugh While Getting Their Portraits Done // 1890
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#3 When David Bowie Was Asked About His Greatest Achievement In Life He Stated, ‘Marrying My Wife’
Writer Simon Witter prompted further, ‘But as a musician?’
David had replied simply, ‘Nothing else matters’.
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#4 Nasa’s Lead Software Engineer For The Apollo Program Margaret Hamilton, Stands Beside Her Hand Written Code That Sky-Rocketed Humanity To The Moon | 1969
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#5 Bernie Sanders Arrested For Protesting Against Segregation. He Was Charged With Resisting Arrest And Fined A Total Of $25 | Chicago, 1963
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#6 A Punk And A Kid | Brussels, Belgium, 2009. Photo By M. Lambrechts
The encounter took place at a Pride event in Brussels, where a curious kid asked if he could touch the punk’s jacket to see if the spikes were as sharp as they looked. The punker knelt down, amused by the kid’s reaction, and they engaged in conversation before returning to the parade.
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#7 Two Young Men Declare Their Willingness To Be Legally Wed To One Another Despite The Law Not Allowing Them To | C. 1900
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#8 Dolly Parton And Her Husband Carl Dean In The 60s. They Have Now Been Married For Over 55 Years
“He’s always loved who I was, and I loved who he was, and we never tried to change each other.” Parton
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#9 During Wwii Jews In Budapest Were Brought To The Edge Of The Danube River Where They Were Forced To Remove Their Shoes Before Being Brutally Shot, Falling Into The River Below
60 pairs of iron shoes now line the river’s banks as memorial to the victims.
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#10 A Priest Holds A Dying Soldier Whilst Bullets Are Fired Around Them | Venezuela, 1962
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#11 Freddie Mercury And Mary Austin
“All my lovers asked me why they couldn’t replace Mary, but it’s simply impossible. The only friend I’ve got is Mary and I don’t want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage…. We believe in each other, that’s enough for me.” – Freddie
. “When he died I felt we’d had a marriage. We’d lived our vows. We’d done it for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health…I lost somebody who I thought was my eternal love.” – Mary
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#12 A Little Boy Hugging His Best Friend During Lunchtime
Not long after this photo was taken children of Japanese ancestry (including the pictures boy) were imprisoned with their parents spending the rest of the WWII in internment camps | Raphael Weill public school. San Fransisco, 1942
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#13 ‘The Kiss Of Life’ Shows A Utility Worker Giving Mouth-To-Mouth Resuscitation To His Unconscious Co-Worker, After He Came Into Contact With A Low Voltage Line Jacksonville, Florida 1967. Photograph By Rocco Morabito
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#14 Concentration Camps Liberated By Allied Forces
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#15 Hands Of A Starving Boy And A Catholic Missionary // Uganda, 1980. Photograph By Mike Wells
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#16 A Couple In A Photo Booth At Hastings Park | Vancouver, Canada, 1953
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#17 Frida Kahlo Takes A Family Portrait Wearing Her Iconic Three Piece Suit, Accessorised With A Cane // Mexico, 1924
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#18 Cats Stand Up On Their Hind Legs To Catch Quirts Of Milk During Milking At Arch Badertscher’s Dairy Farm | 1954. Photographs By Nat Farbman
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#19 Nurses Show Newly Born Triplets To Their Very Surprised Father In A Hospital | New York, 1946. Photograph By Keystone-France
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#20 Snoop Dogg And Cameron Diaz Went To The Same High School
Diaz recalled, “We went to high school together, he was a year older than me….. He was very tall and skinny and wore lots of ponytails in his hair and I’m pretty sure I got weed from him”
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#21 Marathon Officials Try To Stop Katherine Switzer From Competing In The All-Male Boston Marathon
Registering officially under ‘K.V. Switzer’, enabled her to enrol without detection of her gender. Switzer became the first woman to officially run the marathon, as she told Forbes ”I wasn’t trying to prove anything. I loved running and knew that for others who had run Boston, it was a great experience” Boston, 1967. Photographs by Paul Connell.
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#22 Michelle And Barack Obama Photographed On Their Wedding Day // 1992
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#23 Steve Irwin With His Daughter Bindi And A New Found Friend. Photograph By Hugh Stewart
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#24 ‘Wait For Me, Daddy’ A Photo By Claude P. Dettloff Depicts Private Jack Bernard, B.c. Regiment Saying A Final Goodbye To His Son Warren | New Westminster, 1940
The father and son were reunited after Private Bernard returned home from war in October, 1945 as revealed in the second slide.
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#25 Barack Obama Playing With His Grandfather At The Beach, C. 1966
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#26 Couples At The Local Diner | Pittsburgh, 1959. Photograph By Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris
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#27 Audrey Hepburn And Grace Kelly Photographed Backstage At The 28th Academy Awards | Hollywood, 1956. Photos By Allan Grant
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#28 A 95 Year-Old Grandmother Is The Oldest Person In Italy To Recover From The Coronavirus
She stated in an interview “I’m fine, I’m absolutely fine”. She continued to praise the doctors, nurses and staff who assisted her during the recovery process, “They were wonderful, the people who looked after me”
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#29 The Rms Queen Elizabeth Pulling Into New York With Service Men Crowding The Decks, As They Return Home After The End Of Wwii // 1945
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#30 An Enthusiastic Teacher Stands On His Desk To Explain The Physics Of Surfing California, 1970
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#31 Three Sisters, Three Photos, Taken Years Apart.
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#32 The Famous Photo Of Major Terri Gurrola Being Reunited With Her Daughter After Returning From A Seven-Month Tour In Iraq | Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, 11 September 2007. Photograph By Loui Favorite
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#33 Stephen Hawking With His Wife Jane Wilde, 1965
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#34 The Moment Goebbels (Minister Of Nazi Propaganda) Found Out His Photographer Eisenstaedt Was Jewish | 1933. Photograph By Eisenstaedt
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#35 Davy Jones, Who Would Later Go By The Name David Bowie, Outside The Bbc Television Centre After His Band Performed // 7 March, 1965
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#36 Studio Photos Of A Lesbian Couple | Early 1900s
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#37 Reddie And His Love For Cats
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#38 Paul Mccartney With His Daughter Mary In | Scotland, 1970
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#39 Angelina Jolie With Her Father Jon Voight At The 58th Annual Academy Awards, 1986
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