Thomas Erring

Banned from YouTube for 1 week

I was banned from posting on YouTube for 7 days for posting the video above. I will keep posting here the next days instead!

‘David’ by Michelangelo during WW2

‘David’ by Michelangelo encased in bricks during WW2 to protect it from bombing

A protest in New York city in 1941

You can read the signs yourself

Man climbing up World Trade Center

George Willig climbs up the World Trade Center in 1977. After completing the climb in 3 hours, he was arrested at the top, and was fined $1.10 by the city - a penny for each floor he climbed

Soldiers returning home from World War 2 in 1945

Che Guevara moments before his execution

Che Guevara moments before his execution in 1967. To the left you see CIA agent Felix Rodriguez.

Las Vegas Strip in 1955

Library of Cincinnati

A man browsing through the old public library of Cincinnati

Spanish flu in the US in 1918

Photo 1 and 2:
A man getting told off by the police for not wearing a mask.

Photo 3 and 4:
People waiting in line to get their masks during the Spanish flu in the US in 1918.

Photo 5 and 6:
Rail commuters wearing masks and urging others to do the same in California.

Photo 7 and 8:
A police officer ...

Boy meeting Indian soldiers

When Indian soldiers arrived in France to fight alongside French and British forces in WW1, this French boy walked over and introduced himself

The photographer taking the photo from yesterday

This is a less known photo of the photographer taking the famous "Lunch atop a Skyscraper"

Construction workers lunching on top of a skyscraper in 1932

Iran before the Islamic Revolution

An Iranian woman cutting her birthday cake 5 years before the Islamic Revolution

This is a baby cage in New York in 1937

The first selfie stick?

This man used a stick to hit the shutter on his camera in 1957

The last photo of Lenin

The last photo of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of Russia/Soviet Union from 1917 to his death in 1924

20 crazy inventions from the 1900s

This will be postet to YouTube later today

Roman Empire Crown

American soldier Ivan Babcock wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in Germany in 1945

Eiffel Tower under construction

2 of the 300 workers finishing the construction of the tower in 1889

Holocaust wedding rings

The Germans removed wedding rings from Holocaust victims before they were executed

A very happy Chinese man in 1901

British anthropologists photographed people in China in the early 1900s. In many parts of the world, photographs were seen as an important document, and it was not normal to smile when having your picture taken. The Chinese didn't know photos were a serious matter and decided to be goofy.

Al Capone's trial

During Al Capone’s trial in 1931, mobsters hid their faces from the photographer

Soldier and his father in WW1

Serbian soldier sleeping next to his father who visited him on the front line in 1914

Auschwitz prisoners liberated by the Red Army in 1945

First New York subway ride

These are the first passengers to ride the brand new New York subway in 1904.

Extended early access: Around The World in 1896

Gustave Eiffel (bottom left) in the Eiffel Tower in 1889

Some of the last Samurais in 1864

Montparnasse derailment in 1895

The train was running late and the driver was speeing up. It approached the station way too fast and derailed and crashed into the station building

Do you recognize which celebrity the little boy is?

This is Freddie Mercury in his mother’s arms in 1947