“Unlock the Secrets of Time: 50 Mesmerizing Photos That Reveal the Untold Stories of Our Past!”
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#44 At Around 5 P.m. On June 9, 2013, 19-Year-Old Maureen Kelly Took Off All Her Clothes And Walked Away From Her Campsite In Washington’s Remote Gifford Pinchot National Forest. It Was The Last Anyone Ever Saw Her
When she hadn’t returned by midnight, her fellow campers called the police, who began the search the following day. They quickly discovered a pair of bare footprints leading from the campsite down to a creek and up the other side. But the prints ended at a paved forest service road and the trail went cold. And despite days of searching with trained K9 units, they never found any other trace of her and the case remains unsolved to this day.
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#45 A Rare View Of The Statue Of Liberty’s Head As Seen From Its Torch
Until 1916, visitors were allowed to climb up the torch and enjoy spectacular views like this one, but for more than a century, the torch has been closed to the public — and the little-known reason for that is far more dramatic than most people realize.
On July 30, 1916, a group of German saboteurs set fire to what was then the United States’ largest munitions depot on Black Tom Island, right in the shadow of Lady Liberty. The blaze set off a massive explosion that shattered glass windows across Manhattan and Brooklyn and created an earthquake-sized rumble that woke people up as far away as Maryland. The explosion also caused shrapnel to hit the Statue of Liberty, causing permanent damage to the torch
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