Most Intriguing Moments from History

Some of the Most Intriguing Moments from History. A Thread🧵

Saddam Hussein captured by the United States military in December 2003

8. A Soviet woman who lost seven sons during World War II.

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In 1987, James Stanfield captured a photograph of a heart surgeon after a 23-hour-long heart transplant surgery.

The photograph, which shows the surgeon looking exhausted but triumphant, also depicts his assistant sleeping in the corner of the room.

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17. Sunset on Mars captured by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, 2005

18. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to finish the Boston Marathon, despite attempts by race organizers to stop her from competing.

19. In 1994, a Russian soldier was photographed playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya.

. The Kiss of Life

Randall Champion accidentally touched a high-voltage line, electrifying himself & stopping his heart. A fellow linemen J.D. Thompson performed CPR until paramedics arrived. Champion survived and lived until 2002. The photo won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968.

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 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose & Hitler discussing India’s liberation from British rule.

23. Muammar Gaddafi with one of his lady bodyguards. Cairo 1994

24. Adolf Hitler with Helga Goebbels. Helga & her siblings were later given cyanide by her parents in Hitler's bunker in 1945

25. North Korea's current leader Kim Jong-un with his first teacher, 1990

26. Hillary Clinton listens intently as her husband denies having an affair with Monica Lewinsky, USA, 1998.

27. Laika, the first dog in space. No provisions were made for her return, and she died there, 1957

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