1.
Pierre and Marie Curie, husband-and-wife physicist and chemist duo, heading out for a bike ride in the French countryside in 1899.
2.
Author and humorist Mark Twain playing pool with the daughter of his biographer in the early 1900s.
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Winston Churchill, UK Prime Minister, at a pheasant shoot in 1910.
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Engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla, looking at some bits and bobs in his lab in 1910.
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Illusionist Harry Houdini standing around after making an escape from a box submerged in the East River, New York, in July 1912.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, playing in the London-qualifying competition of the Amateur Billiards Championship in 1913.
7.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt reading a book while on the S.S. Imperator in 1913.
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Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, watching Mrs. W. Gould Brokaw of New York take some shots at targets in 1919.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (second from left), hanging out on the beach with some friends in the 1920s.
10.
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, with his dog Chow, sometime in the 1920s.
11.
Inventor Thomas Edison, standing in his lab in an undated photo.
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French fashion designer Coco Chanel, alongside Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, at a horse racing event in 1924.
13.
Indian political activist Mahatma Gandhi spinning cotton in an ashram in 1925.
14.
Actors Randolph Scott and Cary Grant working out at the gym in 1930.
15.
Animator and entrepreneur Walt Disney on vacation in Havana, Cuba, in 1931.
16.
Helen Keller, author and activist, visiting a hospital in England in 1932.
17.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh sitting on top of his plane in Ireland in 1933.
18.
Actresses Joy Hodges, Lucille Ball (blonde!), and Phyllis Brooks bowling in 1935.
19.
Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, inspecting her plane’s radio equipment with Lt. George Sparhawk, U. S. Army Communications Officer in Hawaii, and her Chief Technician, Paul Mantz, in 1935.
20.
Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth) watching a play at the Coliseum Theatre, seated between her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, in 1939.
21.
Artist Salvador Dalà doodling in his bathtub in 1939.
22.
An undated photo of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein sailing.
23.
Singer Frank Sinatra, chatting with some guys around 1945.
24.
Jackie Robinson, trailblazing baseball player, at his writing desk in New York in 1947.
25.
Artist Pablo Picasso doodling a dove at a resort in Côte d’Azur, France, in 1950.
26.
Mickey Mantle, baseball player, at 19 chilling in the dugout before a game in 1951.
27.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower playing golf in Kaneohe, Hawaii, in 1951.
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Then-Senator (and later President) Richard Nixon and William P. Rogers hanging out by the pool in Los Angeles in 1952.
29.
Alan Turing, computer scientist, stands over researchers at the National Physical Laboratory in 1951.
30.
Artist Frida Kahlo lying in bed resting in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1952.
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Actress and singer Doris Day on the beach in 1955.
32.
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., in his home office in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956.
33.
Actress Audrey Hepburn with her mother, Baroness Van Heemstra, near Paris in 1956.
34.
Rita Moreno, singer, dancer, and actress, sketching at home in Los Angeles, California, in 1957.
35.
Tennis and golf star Althea Gibson, leaning in the doorway of a Harlem restaurant in 1957.
36.
Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau (right) plotting out his ship’s course with a crew member in 1960.
37.
Writer and activist James Baldwin writing while hanging off his bed in 1963.
38.
Boxer Muhammad Ali talking on the phone in a bathrobe in a hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1963.
39.
Harland (Colonel) Sanders, entrepreneur, reading the newspaper in 1964.
40.
Civil rights activist Malcolm X arriving at London airport with a video camera in his hands in 1964.
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Poet and writer Allen Ginsberg reading some of his work to his literary agent in 1966.
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Then-Assemblywoman (later U.S. Representative) Shirley Chisholm dancing at Governor Rockefeller’s annual reception in 1968.
43.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong holding up his birthday cake at NASA in 1969.
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Bruce Lee, martial artist, chatting with other entertainment industry folks at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport in 1972.
45.
Cesar Chavez, civil rights leader, eating watermelon on a break during the 1000 Mile March in 1975.
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Gay rights activist Harvey Milk on the back of a motorcycle driven by campaign aide Joyce Garay in 1977.
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Poet and author Maya Angelou in a home library in 1981.
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Journalist Connie Chung hugging husband Maury Povich at home in 1987.
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And finally, George Takei joking around with co-star James Doohan on the set of Star Trek in 1988.
So now I have to know: did you find these pictures as mind-blowing as I did? Let us know in the comments.
