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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Roman Catholic priest Johann Nepomuk Kühberger, who as a four-year-old saved a boy his age who had fallen into the icy waters near the small town of Passau. According to locals, this boy was Adolf Hitler. Photo from the 1950s.

The Moment when Hitler declared war on the USA 1941, December 11th

The first ever photograph of a woman taken in 1839, of Dorothy Catherine Draper. Her daguerreotype portrait is the only surviving contemporary photograph of someone wearing the 1830s poke bonnet, a pre Victorian hat

2012 Mitt Romney US presidential campaign billboard featuring the United States national debt and calling for spending cuts.

Greta Rideout arrives in court to testify against her husband, whom she has accused of rape, at his trial. The trial made national headlines since John Rideout was the first man in U.S. history to be charged with raping his wife while they were living together (Oregon, 1978) .

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

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