⚜️History In Art & Photos 🖼

Areal view of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1920

🇺🇸 Men lined up to vote in a US election, c. 1930s-1940s

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3 Nov 1957: Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with a dog named Laika aboard, a mostly Siberian Husky, the first animal to orbit the earth. As the technology to re-enter the atmosphere had not yet been developed, Laika's survival was never expected. She died by overheating hours into the flight, on the craft's fourth orbit.

Pueblo Indians, New Mexico, c. 1900

British Trooper rescues a puppy from the ruins of a shelled German house on the outskirts of Geilenkirchen, November 1944

🇬🇧 Two soldiers in Kent, England, 1928

George Orwell speaking on a radio broadcast, 1940

Prayer services held in a bombed church in Coventry, England, 1945

1 Nov 1755: Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Portugal