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27 Rare Historical Photos You’ve Never Seen, I’m Surprised #8 Wasn’t Deleted. Sometimes, we look at historical photos for reference. Other times, we look at them to learn. But every once in awhile, looking at historical photos has no other motivation, other than the fact that they're totally awesome. Below are 27 historical photos that are exceptionally cool, and have the added bonus of being relatively rare. Odds are, you've never seen many of these images before -- and when you do, you're going to want to research each of these captured moments even further. #20 is totally fascinating. #1. A social security office in Baltimore, 1965. #2. Queen Elizabeth II viewing the 2,000-year-old terra cotta warriors during a 1986 visit to China. #3. 1948 flight attendants reading their own job descriptions. #4. Fidel Castro giving an interview in a car in 1964. #5. A hunter posing with his trophy: A male okapi, found in the Congo in 1915. #6. A 4-inch TV screen with recording capabilities being shown in 1961. #7. A Sami family in Norway around the year 1900. #8. Princess Diana posing with two Australian lifeguards in 1988. #9. A bonfire protesting John Lennon's 1966 remark that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. #10. A German sound location in 1917. #11. Yiddish children protesting against New York City's lack of child labor laws in 1909. #12. The official dismantling of Checkpoint Charlie in 1990. #13. Students participating in gym class at an English-Scandinavian summer camp. #14. One Times Square, right in the middle of New York City in 1903. #15. The space shuttle Challenger, which exploded shortly after launch in 1986. #16. The construction of the Hughes H-4 "Spruce Goose" in Long Beach, California in 1947. #17. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, riding in a British tank in 1986. #18. A penny-farthing cyclist, headed down the steps of the Capital building in 1895. #19. The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, taking place sometime in 1935. #20. One of France's first gay night clubs in 1932. #21. The legendary Shellback Initiation aboard the HMS Ajax with King Neptune and his Queen. #22. Muhammad Ali, actually sitting on a million dollars in 1963. #23. The crew of Apollo 11 being visited by Richard Nixon in a mobile quarantine facility in 1969. #24. A boy and a boar, taken sometime in the 1930s. #25. Track judges at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. #26. Al Capone keeping it casual in 1931. #27. Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, pictured in 1963.