Matthew Brady Photographs the US Senate in 1860

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This week, a serious look at a little-known instance of time travel.

Matthew Brady Photographs the US Senate in 1860

Is this evidence of time travel to a period before the Chaplin photo?

We've all seen those photos. The one with the lady with the mobile phone in the Chaplin movie. The one of the guy in the t-shirt in and sunglasses, back in the Thirties. Not to mention the one of that guy who claims the government sent him back to listen to the Gettysburg Address. We know all about that Philadelphia Experiment.

Online aficionados have even spotted actor Nicolas Cage in a sepia photograph, leading to charges that he is a vampire – or at least, immortal.

But now, a suspicious piece of time-travel evidence has shown up in the Library of Congress' collection of photographs by the renowned Matthew Brady. Somewhere around 1860, Brady photographed the 36th US Senate – all of them are in this composite, including some that wouldn't be there shortly, such as Jefferson Davis. (Davis is the first on the left, second row from the bottom.) Davis, of course, left to become the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.

However, we are a bit suspicious about one of the 'senators'. One of them looks familiar, and if so. . .

Who do we blame for the US Civil War that broke out the following year?

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