Then and now pictures

To celebrate the liberation of Arnhem, we will take a look at the town in a fantastic selection of Then and Now pictures. We will look at the arrival of

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The subreddit r/OldPhotosInRealLife is pretty much the closest thing we have to a time machine. Its 596k members are constantly comparing past and present through rephotography — the act of taking a photo of a place that has already been photographed before. The end result is like a portal, fusing together two different periods.

The gutted Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (C), which is currently called the Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome, after the bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 6, 1945 and the same location near Aioi Bridge in Hiroshima in 2015

Okay, granted that whoever put some of the celebrity "now" photos intentionally picked unflattering snapshots. And yet others, it's scary to know that some of

As we reflect on the 70th anniversary of The Blitz these montages blend vintage shots of 1940 with colour images of the same locations today.

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It’s hard to imagine the D-Day Invasion in full swing, with soldiers storming the beaches and explosions peppering the coast, when you look at pictures of the beaches in Normandy, France today, but seventy years ago this was the place where the Allies would turn the tides of war and end the German occupation of France.Photographer Chris Helgren has compiled a series of photos that show key locations in the D-Day Invasion from then (June 6, 1944) and now, and needless to say there's a lot…

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing about 140,000 by the end of the year, out of the 350,000 who lived i...

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