10 Unexpected Images From History That Are Heartwarming

• 4:52 pm July 1, 2022
• suhas

You might've heard the saying that 'old is gold' and so are these refreshing pictures from our past. They believed that photos made the past more accessible by giving a solid shape to a world that sometimes appears immaterial. Lets have a look at them now.

Picture taken in 1979 shows a beach in Iran just a few months before the Islamic revolution could take place.

In the decades before the Islamic revolution of 1979, Iran was ruled by the Shah whose dictatorship repressed dissent and restricted political freedoms. But he also he pushed the country to adopt Western-oriented secular modernization, allowing some degree of cultural freedom.

Still, for a period of close to 40 years, the Shah led Iran through a series of sweeping changes.

Indian soldiers met a French boy when they arrived in France to support the French and British forces in the fight of Marseilles in 1914.

A French boy introduces himself to Indian soldiers who had just arrived in France to fight alongside French and British forces, Marseilles.

Photograph was taken on January 1st, 1923 of the last Queen Consort of Mongolia, Genepil.

Genepil was the last queen consort of Mongolia, married to Bogd Khan. She was queen consort for less than a year in 1924. Genepil was executed in May 1938 as part of the Stalinist repressions in Mongolia.

The old woman who was given 5 minutes to pack and leave before the Russian army destroyed her home leaves with rugs and a photo of her husband.

I am beyond questioning the rationale for war. This picture is so hurting. Totally speechless

This picture was taken just minutes before Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated, leading to WW1.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip, shot at close range while being driven through Sarajevo, the provincial capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, formally annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908.

During the 1918 influenza pandemic in California, rail commuters wore white protective masks, one of which said, "Wear A Mask Or Go To Jail."

The sign worn by the woman on the right, reading "WEAR A MASK OR GO TO JAIL," reflects local and state mask ordinances that had gone into effect that fall.

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A war veteran, Leningrad, getting saluted by sailors in 1989.

Anatoly Golimbievsky, a heavily decorated veteran who lost both legs in the Second World War, acknowledges the salute of four young sailors.

Freddie Mercury in his mother's arms in 1947.

Freddie Mercury with his mother, 1947. He's a very interesting mix of cultures. His ancestry is Parsi, his family spoke Gujarati, he was born in Zanzibar (Tanzania), he grew up in Maharashtra, and he spent most of his life in England.

Nigeria falls without water in 1969.

Over three days in June 1969, more than 1,200 trucks dumped nearly 28,000 tons of rocky fill into a cofferdam upstream of the falls, diverting the flow of the Niagara River away from American Falls and toward the much larger Horseshoe Falls.

An Italian soldier feeds a local orphan in the year 1993 in Mogadishu.

An exceptional example of humanity and generosity. The Battle of Checkpoint Pasta, sometimes called the Battle of the Pasta Factory, was a firefight in Mogadishu between Italian troops and Somali rebels, and is remembered for being the first all-out battle involving the Italian Army since the end of the Second World War.