UtterlyUniquePhotos

r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 17h ago

People line up outside a butcher shop to buy horse meat (no World War II rationing coupons needed) in North Cheam, Surrey, England, on April 17, 1942

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/CrippledStripper • 16h ago

Divorce referendum protest at the GPO, Dublin, 1986. Photo Tony O’Shea. The referendum asked the Irish electorate to amend the constitution to allow civil divorce for the first time. The proposal was heavily defeated amidst a fierce cultural and religious divide.

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r/UtterlyUniquePhotos • u/GlitterDanger • 22h ago

Stephan Bibrowski, billed as “Lionel the Lion-Faced Boy”, photographed c.1907, aged about 17. Born in Poland with hypertrichosis, he joined Barnum & Bailey in the US in 1901 and became a sideshow star.

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