During the siege of Leningrad in 1943, Belle the hippo survived the war thanks to her caretaker, Yevdokia Dashina. - History Education Network

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My 3rd great grandmother pregnant with her first baby in 1899. To me she is the most beautiful woman ever❤️

Winston Churchill firing a Thompson submachine gun during a military demonstration in the United Kingdom (1940)

Franceska Mann (1917-1943) was a courageous Jewish dancer. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Jewish dancer Franceska Mann began to perform a striptease. When the guards asked her to remove her clothes, she took advantage of one of their distractions to steal his weapon and shoot him dead.

Hiroshima, Japan, 1945: This shadow that seems almost drawn on the white of five steps, tells the last moments of a person. All that remains is the shadow caused by the flash of the atomic bomb that August 6th.

Life Magazine 1947, ‘The Most Beautiful Suicide’, Evelyn McHale at the bottom of the Empire State Building.

During the siege of Leningrad in 1943, Belle the hippo survived the war thanks to her caretaker, Yevdokia Dashina.

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