56 Photos That Show Another Side Of History

By | March 4, 2019

An unconscious Babe Ruth on the ground after running into a wall chasing a fly ball, he would regain consciousness five minutes later and get two more hits in the game. (1924)

There are moments in history that we’ve heard about so many times that we think we know every side of the story, however as you’ll find in these photographs there tends to be one aspect that you’ve never heard - or seen. Whether you’re interested in the lives of silent era film stars, or warriors who fought thousands of years ago, these photos offer up a new angle on timeless tales. Don’t you love learning something new about a historical event that you heard about in school? Isn’t it great to find out that there’s more to a story than what you learned in a history book? If this is the kind of thing that intrigues you then scroll on! 

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In July 1924 Babe Ruth and the Yankees were playing the first game of a double header at Griffith Stadium in Washington against the Senators. During the fourth inning Ruth ran after a ball that was sailing towards the fall line, however he didn’t see the concrete wall where the stands started and the field ended.

Ruth, a phenomenon by this point, ran into the wall and was knocked out cold. Doc Woods, the trainer for the Yankees tended to him by splashing cold water on his face, and after five minutes Ruth woke up and said that he wanted to keep playing. He went back into the game, although heavily injured at this point, and even played in game two. 

Pablo Escobar, notorious Colombian drug lord, standing in front of the White House with his son (1980's).

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Pablo Escobar is the most successful drug lord of the 20th century, and he changed the face of America by funneling narcotics into the country with the Medellin cartel. It’s believed that the cartel made around $420 million a week, which turned Escobar into one of the wealthiest people in the world. He had so much money that he was able to travel freely throughout the world.

By the late 1980s he offered to pay off the company’s debt in exchange for his exclusion from extradition treaties. Much of his wealth is allegedly buried around the country in disparate places.