An unknown performer, known as one of the Ziegfeld Girls, posing for an artistically sexy picture in 1922. Most of the girls did similar pictures to promote the theatrical Broadway revue spectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies in NYC, US from 1907-1931. Those pictures are some of the most tastefully sexy vintage pictures I have ever seen. Being a Ziegfeld Girl was a highly desired job, as the girls needed to be excellent singers, dancers, be physically strong, sexy, seductive but also graceful for the productions. They were paid alongside top female movie stars of the time, before the show ran its course. 2 Films even sprung up from their popularity after they ended.

2 Men dress as Celtics in Paris in 1951.

Passengers on a train traveling from Tokyo to Osaka go through three minutes of calisthenics under leadership of a drill master, during a five-minute stopover at Hammamatsu in 1952. This unusual service was set up to help travelers on the long journey limber up at the station which is about half way between the two cities. There is even music for the exercises, and a platform for the drill master.

A crown gathers to watch the hanging of Murderous Mary in Erwin, Tennessee, US in 1916. A little hard to tell, but Mary is in the center of the photo, and is in fact a circus elephant. After years of abuse, she killed her trainer, and the population nearby to the circus at the time decided to have the poor creature hanged. There is a rather uncomfortably shocking aftermath picture as well.

Miss NASA 1971 posing on the Apollo 8 capsule in Houston, Texas, US in 1971. Apparently NASA held a beauty pageant for many years from the 1950s until the late 1970s to try and get more people interested in the program. They originally had other titles such as Miss Guided Missile and Miss Jet Propulsion before becoming just Miss NASA in the late 1960s.

Contestants flex for a picture before a body building contest in Athens, Greece in 1980. These events were all over Europe at the time, as gyms and body building started to become huge.

A Moro warrior stands in battle armor during the Moro Rebellion in the Philippines in 1900.

An unknown woman riding her horse, side saddle no less, somewhere in England in 1905.

A unnamed woman shows off her hunting skills in Michigan, 1927.

2 Men arrested after a bar fight pose for a picture in NYC, 1975.

Company H of the 48th New York Regiment of the Union Army pose for a picture at Fort Pulaski, in Savannah, GA, US in 1863. If you zoom in, you can see the men in the background are actually playing baseball, and this picture is arguably the earliest known picture of a baseball game being played.

A regiment of black soldiers, known as Buffalo Soldiers, guard captured Spanish soldiers after their victory at the Battle of Santiago in Cuba in 1898. The war made future US president Teddy Roosevelt a war hero, but people sometimes forget the huge role the Buffalo Soldiers played, being in major battles and achieving key victories.

2 Men in protective gear have a match in the Olympic Event of Pistol Dueling at the 1906 Olympics in Athens, Greece. They used wax bullets, and competed with speed and accuracy being the key, similar to old west shootouts that most of us have seen heavily exaggerated in films. No gun powder, just the primer, which was enough to propel the wax bullet. This Olympic event, as one might guess, did not take off.

A young girl shows off a unique hair style in Hong Kong in 1958.

Russians fill Red Square to celebrate the first flight into space in 1961. Thousands turned out, dancing and having fun as one of the most important moment in humanities history unfolded.