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jacob miller was struck squarely in the forehead with a musket bullet during the battle of chickamauga on september 19, 1863, | left for dead on the battlefield, he regained consciousness hours later and lived for another 54 years | on this photo miller wears his medal of the grand army of the republic, a fraternal organization formed after the war for union veterans Vintage Military Photos, Historical Military Art, Jacob Miller, Old Military Pictures, Historical Military Tribute, 18th Century Military Portraits, Rare Historical Photos, John Wesley, Human Babies

jacob miller was struck squarely in the forehead with a musket bullet during the battle of chickamauga on september 19, 1863, | left for dead on the battlefield, he regained consciousness hours later and lived for another 54 years | on this photo miller wears his medal of the grand army of the republic, a fraternal organization formed after the war for union veterans

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an old black and white photo of people with clown masks on their faces sitting in front of the audience

The very rare pair of Mickey Mouse masks in pressed card, one bearing teeth, the other with a hanging tongue, having been made for the German market and with the German ink retail stamp and paper label to the interior and probably having been initially used for the Mickey Mouse Thanksgiving Parade or for a Mickey Mouse Club cinema screening, each with pierced holes and later elasticated attachments, surviving in good overall order from 1930s Nazi torn Germany. The ephemeral nature of the…

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three women standing next to each other in front of a wall with pictures on it

Decades before Patrick Swayze became a 1980s teenage heartthrob in movies such as “Ghost” and “Dirty Dancing,” his family opened Swayze's Barbecue in Houston.

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an old black and white photo of a man sitting on a rock by the water

There's an iconic photograph of physicist extraordinaire Albert Einstein sitting on a rock dressed in shorts and open toed sandals, looking a bit like the original hipster.This image has sparked the imagination of science nerds and Einstein fans for decades, and is often used in a "scientists have fun too" kinda way, but what's the real story behind this photo?Turns out this is a snapshot of Albert at the beach wouldn't have happened without this guy:His name is David Rothman, and he owned…

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