Historical Planet
Monday, 2 November 2015
Hajj in 1889
Qurbani animals stayed with the pilgrims
Stoning the devil in the mid-1900s
Tents in Arafah during Hajj in the 1950s
A rare moment – Pilgrims continue Hajj even when the The Holy Kaaba was surrounded by water
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Rabindranath Tagore – First Indian to win Nobel Prize ( 1913 )
MG Road Bangalore
This picture shows the glass being applied to the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, which stands at 2722 feet tall
The 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel under construction in the North Korean capital Pyongyang in 2008. It still hasn't opened
The twin Petronas Towers Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, can be seen mid-construction in 1995. The towers have 88 storeys each, and each stand 1,483 feet above street level
A vintage postcard of 1960s Istalif
The Sagrada Familia, a fixture of the Barcelona skyline and a major tourist site, had its first stone laid in 1882 however picture was taken in 1935, with decades of work left to do.
Thursday, 22 October 2015
These are the negatives for the incredible images, with the top right showing Titantic's sister ship, RMS Olympic
The snaps were taken at 12.15pm on May 31, 1911 by a Belfast businessman who was given close access to the doomed liner at the Harland and Wolff shipyard
The picture of the iceberg taken from passing German liner Prinz Adalbert has appeared in books about the disaster but an accompanying note which gives it credibility was virtually unknown until now
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