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If you were in a Soviet-era prison about oh, say 50 years ago, you’d have tattoos. A lot of them. But not just any tattoos, particular designs that were symbolic, that showed off your cred, and other interesting personal facts. Read more:…

There are still places today where we can see remnants of the past, and Nick Sullivan’s images of historic photos reunited with their modern locations help us find these places. Sullivan, who is also Esquire’s fashion director, finds…

“An 80s contemporary teen bravely documented via photos days and moments of a restrictive daily life along with the freedom of expression and manifestation. Andrei Birsan manages to offer his generation a mean of remembering those…

A Rotterdam-based urban photographer who goes by the name of Brian has managed to capture a piece of history that’s slowly fading into oblivion, namely the Grand Orient Express. The train that defined luxury back in 1883 when it was…

Long before Amazon, Audible, and other digital book distributors, bookmobiles were bringing literature to peoples\' doorsteps. Their mission was to provide the written word to remote villages and city suburbs that had no libraries. We…

A year after it was taken by ISIS, the Syrian city of Palmyra was recently retaken Syrian forces backed by Russian airstrikes. Previously home to many of the world’s most treasured historical sites, many artifacts were destroyed by the…

Globalization hasn\'t only changed the way we do business: it\'s had an impact on what we consider to be beautiful, too. Just as many lament the McDonalds and Starbucks on every corner, where once there might have been a local…

Barack Obama turns 55 today. Running one of the largest, most prosperous and most powerful nations in the world as the President of the United States is a stressful task, and these photos will show what sort of effect that stress can…

Ever heard the saying “It’s not rocket science!”? It’s often used by smart-asses who know nothing about rocket science. But then again, who does? It is, after all, super difficult. Well, NASA does, obviously, and back in the early 60s…

When you think of Afghanistan, you probably don\'t think of short skirts, nice cars and liberal lifestyles, but just as Iran looked very different in the 1970s, these fascinating pictures show that Afghanistan in the 1960s was a very…