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Image Source: So Bad So Good Photographer Antanas Sutkus began documenting life in Soviet Lithuania after becoming disillusioned by the confines of the Soviet-controlled press. Most of his photographs were taken during the 1960s and 1970s, during a period of high poverty and a troubled relationship with Soviet rule.

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Port Royal, Jamaica. The quake caused the town to sink into its loose soil foundation and the subsequent tsunami submerged Port Royal in 40 feet of water. Some 2,000 people died immediately, with another 3,000 later succumbing to injury and disease.

Like this gallery?Share it: During the late 1960s and early '70s, the high points of the counterculture in the U.S. were marked by large gatherings, first at the "Human Be-in's" in San Fransisco during 1967 and later at music festivals like Woodstock in upstate New York in 1969.

Wikimedia CommonsDetail of an 18th-century engraving of Scotswomen fulling cloth with their feet and singing. Before fabric softener existed, people had a very peculiar way of making cloth feel more pleasant on the skin. The people that were enlisted to perform this job was dubbed the fuller, and the fabric that most commonly needed to

Invented in 1925 by Italian M. Goventosa de Udine, these swimming aids were made from bike tires and allowed the wearer to move at speeds of up to 93 mph. And while theyre a far cry from being fashionableor even remotely comfortableat least you could move faster than a running cheetah. Right?