This photo of Theo van Gogh, taken in 2004, was captured the same year he was murdered. A great-grandson of Vincent van Gogh’s brother, Theo, he was killed on November 2, 2004, by a radical Islamist for his controversial film Submission, which criticized the treatment of women in Islam

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In 1973, healthy volunteers faked hallucinations to enter mental hospitals. Once inside, they acted normal, but doctors refused to let them leave. Normal behaviors like writing were diagnosed as "symptoms." The only people who realized they were sane were the actual patients.

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Natural light portrait of a coworker

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This is Gary Kildall, the man who made the operating system CP/M. He could have been as successful as Bill Gates, had he gotten an interview at IBM before Gates.

r/oldschoolcool

My dad through the ages. 1966 onwards

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My Great-grandfather sometime in the 1950s.

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Rough phone scans of film in a camera bag from an estate sale - 1970s school photo day, Chicago area!

r/oldschoolcool

My grandfather was the greatest supervillain of the 1970’s.

r/thewaywewere

Rough phone scans of film in a camera bag from an estate sale - 1970s school photo day, Chicago area!

r/thatsinsane

Ferdinand Demara, known as 'The Great Impostor,' posed as a surgeon aboard a Navy destroyer during the Korean War. When forced to operate on 16 patients, he speed-read a general surgery textbook and successfully performed all procedures without any deaths.

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Doctor Hermann Rorschach, Inventor of the famous inkblot test, in 1910.

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My grandpa in the 1980s. He had just returned from a trip overseas as a sailor on a fishing boat

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My Grandfather fought facists and spied on the Franco regime in the early 1940s.