An iron lung, also known as a negative pressure ventilator, is a medical device that helps a person breathe when they can’t control their muscles or when breathing is too hard for them. It lowers the pressure surrounding the thorax, which makes the rib cage bigger and pulls air into the lungs. Polio causes the body to lose control of…
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After France was freed, French women who made friends with the Nazis, whether they wanted to or not, were picked out for terrible punishment. French residents are shaving the skull of this woman, who is thought to have been a prostitute who serviced German soldiers, to mark her publicly. On August 29, 1944, this photo was taken in Montelimar, France….
Demi Moore was a new star in the 1980s, a decade full of high goals and bold fashion. These pictures take us back to that exciting time, when Demi was just starting to get famous and was surrounded by a world of big hair, daring choices, and raw ambition. Moore’s inherent charisma and magnetism filled up every frame long before…
Barack Obama was a bright-eyed child with a contagious smile and a bright future ahead of him in the 1960s and 1970s, long before he became famous. These rare childhood images reveal his early years and feature beautiful, daily moments that show how close and affectionate his family life was. Barack Obama grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia, which gave…
The long history of coal mining in Pennsylvania John Collier, a photographer for the Office of War Information, took the photographs in this article. They show the hard lives of miners working in the Pittsburgh Coal Company’s Montour No. 4 Mine. Collier wrote about the miners’ lives underground, as they laid tracks, set up apparatus, drilled, and blasted with dynamite…
Mary Ann Bevan, a mother of four in England in the 1900s, got acromegaly and became known as “the ugliest woman in the world” to support her children. This is her sad story, which shows how cruel the world can be. The World’s Ugliest Woman wasn’t always the ugliest person in the world. Before she got acromegaly, Bevan was a…
Barbi Benton, whose real name is Barbara Lynn Klein, is an American actress, model, and singer who became famous in the 1960s and 1970s. Benton had a big effect on the entertainment business during her peak. She was known for her stunning beauty and varied career. She was interested in modelling and the arts from a young age. She started…
The word “whipping” in American history makes people think of a harsh and scary punishment from the past. It was a cruel thing to do that hurt a lot of people physically and emotionally. Whipping is the act of hitting a person using particular tools such whips, rods, switches, the cat o’ nine tails, the sjambok, the knout, and so…
Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, better known as Natalie Wood, was born on July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California. She was always going to be amazing. She would go on to become one of Hollywood’s most famous and loved actresses, winning over fans with her beauty, talent, and charm. Natalie’s path into the world of entertainment began when she was just…
Elizabeth Taylor was a British-American actress who was born in 1932. In the early 1940s, she started out as a child actress. By the 1950s, she was one of the most famous actresses of classical Hollywood movies. She went on to become the highest-paid movie star of the 1960s and became a well-known public figure for the rest of her…