Fake images from past

Have you ever came across things on internet when you look at something and wonder if it is true or not.

Well this thing which is common every now and then is running from old times. Here’s a list of “5 images from the past which were totally fake”. So let’s just dive onto that.

#1  Photo of teddy Roosevelt riding the moose was a fake

One of America’s most beloved presidents and outdoorsmen was teddy Roosevelt, amassing a list of accomplishments that includes becoming the first American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, as well as being the youngest man to be elected president.

He was America’s own invincible man,cheating death at every turn.

However, one thing that he didn’t do was ride a moose through a lake. The photo of him riding the moose is indeed a pre-Photoshop fake.

The photo first came about during the presidential race of 1912. Roosevelt was a third party presidential candidate running on the new Progressive Party ticket.

Roosevelt was running against Republican presidential incumbent William Howard Taft and Democrat Woodrow Wilson in what would come to be the last time a political party outsider was a true contender for president.

Two months before the election, on Sep 8, 1912, the New York Tribune ran a set of humorous pictures under the headline "The Race for the White House," showing the three main presidential candidates astride the animals associated with their parties.

William Howard Taft was shown riding an elephant (for the Republican Party). Woodrow Wilson sat on a donkey (for the Democratic Party). And Roosevelt rode a moose (for the Bull Moose Party).

All three images were fake. They had been created by the photographic firm Underwood and Underwood.

To mount Roosevelt onto a moose, Underwood and Underwood painstakingly cut out an image of him riding a horse, and then pasted it onto a picture of a swimming moose.

The fatal mistake can be seen just above Roosevelt’s knee, where falsified ripples in the water give away the con. But Roosevelt has plenty of other real accomplishments of which we can all be in awe.

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#2  One of the first astronauts to orbit the earth was erased

Just before dawn on February 18, 1966, a Soviet cosmonaut named Grigori Nelyubov was wandering drunk and stepped in front of a train. The death was ruled a suicide and the subsequent cover-up would fuel rumors about lost cosmonauts.

As a pilot in the Soviet Air Force, Nelyubov was one of the original cosmonauts selected for the Russian space program.

After extensive testing and training, Nelyubov was among an elite group of six men with a good chance to be the first man in space. But on April 12, 1961, it was his comrade Yuri Gagarin who got the call.

Nelyubov was slated as a backup for the second space mission, and he continued to train as he patiently waited his turn. The second mission came and went and Nelyubov was still waiting in the wings.

On March 27, 1963 Nelyubov and two of his fellow cosmonauts ventured off the base for a night of drinking. After a few too many beers they were getting rowdy in a train station when a security patrol approached them.

Nelyubov proceeded to get into a shoving match and the men were arrested for being drunk and disorderly. The officers who arrested them offered to forget the whole thing if the cosmonauts apologized, but a defiant Nelyubov refused.

When his commanders heard the news, Nelyubov and his two comrades were kicked out of the space program. To avoid embarrassment, Russian authorities took steps to remove mention of the cosmonauts from the public record.

In one infamous example, Nelyubov was airbrushed out of a publicity photo showing the first team of cosmonauts.

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#3  Some pictures of Paris commune killing were staged

After the franco-prussian war and the defeat of France, Paris was kind of wreck. The anti-royalists declared the city commune and set up barricades and to this the Versailles troop responded with force.

Things went bad and a portrait photographer named Ernest Eugene Appert released a series of photos titled “The crimes of the commune”.

He had a bunch of actors come in to stand like they were being executed, then pasted the appropriate heads and the backgrounds in.

Though if he wanted to make people believe he might have had the front row duck rather stand with rifles jammed in the back of their heads

The commune indeed executed some of the hostages but it wasn’t that bad as some people wanted it to be.

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#4  The lung powered flying machine that shocked the world

This photo, showing a revolutionary flying machine powered by blowing into a device strapped to one's chest, was published by a German newspaper in 1934, it was actually an April fool’s prank.

Most of America's top newsrooms -- including The New York Times and Chicago Herald & Examiner -- took the article for a true story, telling their audiences that they could soon fly on their own power as long as they didn't mind looking like tools.

There are a few reasons they didn't get the joke, and not because Americans are dumb. This was a long time ago, when you couldn't click on a link, look at the date, and realize you've been April Fooled.

When the photo was disseminated by the International News Photo agency, it wasn't identified as a joke, and Americans didn't realize it was published on April Fool's Day.

International News Photo agency also didn’t bothered much with checking the details of the story which made clear it was a joke, like the pilot's name being a German pun and the fact that the device was said to work on the combustion of carbon dioxide, which isn't very combustible.

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#5  Ulysses s. grant stole hearts after civil war

War was the bloodiest battle fought on U.S. soil, but America being America, some people's chief concern was "How can I get rich off this?" As such, photographers stormed the fields alongside soldiers, certain that the images they took could maybe buy them a modest condo one day.

One of the images is titled "General Grant At City Point." It shows the Union general posing proudly atop a horse, looking totally unfazed after one of the Civil War's fiercest battles, while POW(prisoners of war) are dragged across a Union encampment.

And it never happened. Likely assembled by L.C. Hardy, who made good business for himself in the early 20th century producing photos of historic veterans making them look more heroic than they really were, it's a composite of three different images taken of three different scenes at three different times during the war.

The only part of that image that really is Grant, it’s his head, which explains why, after such a stirring victory, he just looks vaguely constipated.

The irony is that if its purpose was to make Grant look powerful, it doesn't do its job very well. William B. Becker, creator of the online American Museum of Photography, points out that the general's men aren't paying him much attention and respect, just kind of milling around in the background and ignoring him, almost as if he wasn't there.

On the Library of Congress website, it is noted that Major General Alexander McDowell McCook, the man on the horse upon whose body Grant's head is pasted, was rather more "stout around the middle" than Grant was.

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