For many people, history is just a boring subject they had to study at school, with its dozens of dates and dry theories.

We decided to correct this impression and put together a selection of 9 historical photographs that say more than words could ever express.

Freddie Mercury with his mother, 1947.

The execution of a communist, Germany, 1919.

The first gay pride parade in Philadelphia, June 1972.

The future Queen Elizabeth II, June 1940.

The Twin Towers on a morning in New York, a year before construction was completed, 1972.

Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, New York, 1963.

A half-naked FBI agent brings $1 million to some airplane hijackers in 1972.

Nagasaki before and after the explosion of an atomic bomb, 1945.

A bra design popular in the ’40s and ’50s. And you thought today’s youth had lost it…