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Iconic Moments from the Past Reborn

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Check out these amazing GIFs, which transform iconic photographs from the past into moving images.

What an awesome way to learn about historical events. Feast your eyes on these cool GIFs and read the facts to find out what’s going on. It’s almost like being there. Almost.

Empire State Building

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  • The building has 103 floors and the roof height is 1250ft (381m). The height including the antenna is 1454ft (443.2m).

  • Around 3,400 workers were involved in the construction of the Empire State building. Official records show five workers died.

  • It took just 410 days for the Empire State Building to be built.

  • The building cost $24,718,000 to build. With the land included, the cost was $40,948,900.

  • There are 6514 windows in the building.

 

Moon Landing

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  • The first American flag planted in the moon was knocked down just hours later by the rocket blast of Aldrin and Armstrong leaving.

  • Some of the artifacts left on the moon include a golden olive branch, an American flag, an Apollo 1 patch and a memorial disk.

  • The first spacecraft to reach the moon was a Soviet craft launched by the USSR. It passed within 5995km of the surface of the moon before going into orbit around the Sun.

  • NASA intend on returning to set up a permanent space station. They hope to walk on the moon in 2019 if all goes according to plan.

 

V-J Day

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  • This photo was taken on V-J Day (Victory over Japan) in Time Square. V-J Day is the day Japan surrendered, ending World War II.

  • The formal signing of Japanese surrender took place on board USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2nd September, 1945.

  • The Japanese surrendered after the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  • The photo was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, who went to take photos of the celebrations. When he saw the nurse and the sailor kissing, he took four photos.

 

Albert Einstein

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  • Einstein won the 1921 Nobel prize in Physics for his work on theoretical physics.

  • Hitler considered Einstein public enemy number one.

  • Einstein wasn’t a fan of socks and got away with not wearing them at the University of Oxford.

  • Even though he was a pacifist, he wrote a letter to President Roosevelt alerting him to the potential development of an extremely powerful bomb.

  • His first inspiration to learn physics was a compass. He was fascinated by the fact that the arrow would always stay in the same place.

Source(s): Alan Pun

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