26 Historical Snapshot Tweets Showing How Much The World's Changed

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mattstaff
Jun 5, 2019 8:00 PM EDT

We've come a long way! And the world's always been a strange place. Go and check out the original Twitter account, @historyinmoment, for more snapshots from the past. 

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    Antique tool - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Viking axe before and after restoration.
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    Text - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Construction of the Eiffel Tower in July, 1888
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    Photo caption - Life in Moments @historyinmoment MJ won a Championship on Father's Day right after his Father died. He ran into this room, collapsed & started crying 23 am
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    History - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Clowns in the 1920s
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    Product - Life in Moments @historyinmoment A woman driving an Autoped, 1916
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    Text - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Earliest known drawings of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner by Chuck Jones, circa 1945 #1012 CHUC. (CARNIVERUS ULSARIS) MODEL SES ACCELEAATI o Warner Bros. NCREDIRNUS doC coure
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    Text - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Woman picketing the White House, 1917. MR.PRESIDENT HOW LONG MUST WOMEN WAIT FOR LIBERTY
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    Photograph - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Jackie Kennedy watching her husband debate Richard Nixon, 1960
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    Liqueur - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Cannabis Alcohol' from the early 1900s POISON 4 OUNCES SPECIFIC MEDICINES Specific Medicines CANNABIS (AMERICAN HEMP) CANNABIS (A 1.IQUID PREPARATION) (AMERICAN HEMP) ALCOHOL 74 PER CENT ALCOHOL 74 PER CENT OTD BROTHERS PHARMACISTS, IN CINCINNATI, OHIO Dose: R. Sp. Med. Cannahis, to 3j Water, 5iv. LLOYD BROTHERS, PHARMACISTS INC isc Sig A teaspoonful of the dilutio hour. Shake the bottle befo each dose. Poisonous in Overdoses. CINCINNATI OHIO
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    Text - Life in Moments @historyinmoment The first interracial kiss on American TV took place November 22, 1968 between Captain James T. Kirk and Uhura
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    Photograph - Life in Moments @historyinmoment The Beatles preparing to cross Abbey Road, 1969
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    Product - Life in Moments @historyinmoment 1970s Computers. 1 Hnt ৯ eny
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    Poster - Life in Moments @historyinmoment A 12-year old Muhammad Ali, in 1954 posT
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    Motor vehicle - Life in Moments @historyinmoment The Wright airplane being towed to the parade grounds of Fort Meyer, Virginia 1908
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    Text - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Steve Jobs giving IBM the finger in 1983 IBM
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    Text - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Circa 1920's, a picnic at a Los Angeles alligator farm where patrons were allowed to mingle freely among trained alligators from 1907 to 1953
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    Technology - Life in Moments @historyinmoment A New York City policeman hanging out, 1920 acys CHALM nd
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    Architecture - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Louvre Museum. The Grande Galerie abandoned during World War Il
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    Text - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Pyramid of captured German helmets in New York, 1918
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    Jaguar - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Actress Phyliss Gordon out shopping with her pet cheetah, 1939.
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    Text - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Television glasses, 1963.
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    Output device - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Apple's Touchscreen 'iPhone' Prototype from 1983 mc tecst en. प्रधक्धण्का
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    Photograph - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Andy Warhol & Alfred Hitchcock, 1974
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    Photograph - Life in Moments @historyinmoment John F Kennedy and Jackie on their wedding day, 1953.
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    Product - Life in Moments @historyinmoment Andy Warhol shopping for Campbell's Soup, 1965 Camp soer so s0ur ScotTo 2 37
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    Text - Life in Moments @historyinmoment The original Saturday Night Live cast 1975
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