A weekly compilation of the most striking historical photographs people shared this week — rare, vintage, and forgotten moments from the past — pulled from user posts.

This week's highlights: This episode of Social Rewind Weekly digs into Stanislav Petrov's 1983 decision not to report a false Soviet missile alert, Rudolf Diesel's unsolved 1913 disappearance at sea, John Paul Jones's "I have not yet begun to fight" battle against the Serapis, and the 1846 mathematical discovery of Neptune, alongside a run of stranger-than-fiction trivia spanning Vespasian's Roman urine tax, the 1518 Strasbourg Dancing Plague, and the naming of America after Amerigo Vespucci.

📸  Rare and vintage historical photos
🕰️  Moments from the past
🌍  History from around the world

Perfect as relaxing background scenery, or if you just want to see history come alive.

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