A rally led by the French Socialist Party outside the Gare du Nord train station in Paris shortly before World War 1. French Gendarmerie on horseback marshal the crowd to maintain order. An open horse carriage (likely with French Socialist leader Jean Jaurès as a passenger) passes by the crowds. More crowds gather outside the Gare du Nord station. Crowds attending the rally hold placards. French Socialist leader Jean Jaurès addresses the crowd during the rally outside Paris Gare du Nord.
German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg enters a car to leave for the Reichstag to give speech declaring war, start of WWI. Honor guards assist and salute Chancellor. Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg as he heads for the Reichstag to declare war on Belgium and France. Crowds of Germans salute with their hats. Honor guards on horseback and soldiers marching with flags during a military parade in Berlin. Civilians march along soldiers in parade. People wave good-bye as mobilized German soldiers leave for World War I on the train.
Russia immediately after the Russian Revolution and takeover of Petrograd. Russians marching on the streets with placards, waving white flags. Bolshevik officers disembark from a train. Russian Marxist revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, in military uniform, shakes hands with officers. Leon Trotsky and Bolshevik officers walking together. Bolshevik officers leave by car. Bolshevik men and women with rifles enter a building. View of Vladimir Lenin, wearing civilian clothes, in a crowd. Guards with artillery at the Smolny Institute in Petrograd.
Italian fighter pilots train in Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) crewmen put on helmets and climb the ladder of a fighter jet. United States Air Force instructors and Aeronautica Militare students in Mess dress watch the fighter jet taking off. Italian Air Force pilots wave at their colleagues from the tarmac. Italian Air Force pilots visit The Alamo Mission (300 Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, TX 78205, United States ) during their free time in Texas. A car passes by the Italian Embassy (2700 16th St NW, Washington, D.C., DC 20009, USA) in Washington DC. A man exits the Italian Embassy. Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Giovanni Brosio, speaks from his office. Ambassador Brosio speaks about his role as the Italian ambassador in raising awareness of Italy in the United States. Ambassador Brosio says that Italy known in the United States not only for its art, history, natural beauty but also as a modern and productive country- the new, postwar Italy is known in America today.
German Wehrmacht motorized units arrive in Italy during World War 2. German soldiers in motorcycles with sidecars (BMW R75) and other vehicles moving through an Austria town, passing by a Gasthof (German-style inn). A tracked vehicle moves. Road sign reads “Brenner Stubaital”. German motorized units pass through a bridge near the Brenner Pass, the border between Austria and Italy. Railroad train flat cars loaded with German tanks and soldiers move slowly past a railway station as they proceed to Italy. German soldiers on top of a tank moving through the Brenner Pass. German tanks entering Italy. German soldiers riding a motorcycle in the Brenner Pass. A military vehicle carries German soldiers to the Italian border. An Italian Carabinieri (gendarme) stands in between a “Deutsches Reich” stone post and a border sign “A.A.S.S. ITALIA”. A German boy with goggles rides on a Volkswagen Kübelwagen with soldiers. Another boy with German soldiers. A German soldier smokes cigarette while driving a BMW R75 in Italy. An Italian woman blows a kiss to passing German troops. Italian woman tosses and distributes bread for German soldiers. Italian men and women give bread to German soldiers. An Italian woman express happiness upon the arrival of German troops. A little girl gives bread to German soldiers. Italian townspeople welcome German troops near the Brenner Pass. German soldiers eat bread. German troops drink refreshments. Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251 halftrack pass by a tunnel. German tanks such as the Panzer IV pass through the Brenner Pass.
Apollo 11 astronaut trains in zero gravity on board a reduced-gravity aircraft KC-135 (Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker). An Apollo 11 astronaut walks towards the back of the aircraft in zero gravity. NASA staff assists the astronaut in falling on his back. Front view of astronaut climbing a simulated LLV hatch. A cord dangles from the astronaut’s backpack as he hangs on to the simulated LLV hatch. Astronaut removing item from equipment bay. Astronaut pulls out a Lunar Sample Return Container (“rock box”). Astronaut opens the Lunar Sample Return Container.
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