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my grandparents in the 1950s
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"Disobeying to hitler shortens the war" French resistance flyer, WW2.
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1980's photo of Mexican drug lord Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, who founded what would become the gulf cartel, one of the most powerful & dangerous cartels in Mexico to this day, almost a century ago in 1930. Throughout his entire career he spent only a few hours in jail & died at 85 a free man. (640x465)
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Iraqi minister of information Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, better known in the west as "Baghdad Bob" during a wartime propaganda broadcast in 2003. Sahhaf was known for his colorful & widely mocked press briefings in which he often made ludicrous claims about Iraq's military successes. (500x370)
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Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at the Livadia Palace in Yalta, Russia , Feb 1945,
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Inhabitants of Turin watch the FIAT Lingotto plant burning and collapsing after an Allied air raid, 29 March 1944
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B-17 Flying Fortress “Sweet and Lovely”
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Christopher Walken turns 81 (born March 31, 1943) today.
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Istanbul 1905 vs Today [ 1080x1080 ]
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People on barricades set up by parliamentary forces during the constitutional crisis in Russia in the fall of 1993. It was a conflict between the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, which included politicians from all political positions, and President Boris Yeltsin. [1024x756]
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Colorised photo of (debatably) the dumbest officer and his adjutant escaping from their own POW camp
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My mom at a house party her freshman year of college (Spring 1970, Eastern Illinois University)
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Diana Rigg and Anthony Hopkins, early 1970s.
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7 Oct 1943, Ottla Kafka, beloved sister of author Franz Kafka, was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid [530 x 755]
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Actors Raymond Burr and Vic Perrin in a publicity still for CBS Radio's Fort Laramie, 1956. This excellent show ran one season. The next year, Burr was cast as Perry Mason for television (more info below) [2160 × 2413]
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Laurence “Scrappy” Blumer and his Lockheed P-38 Lightning “Scrapiron IV” - On August 25, 1944 he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for shooting down 5 German fighters in 15 minutes, which also made him an Ace in a single mission. [640x660]
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40 Years GDR „What we are proud of“ Poster 1989
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My dad next to his brother who is trying to pick up his new gf, now wife of 45 years
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U.S. Army Nurses sunbathing next to a twin Bofors 40 mm gun on a Coast Guard troop ship returning back to the United States from Europe, 1945. [914x720]
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Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir receives a hug from a student during a visit to Fourth Street School in Milwaukee on Oct. 3, 1969. Meir, who became prime minister of Israel earlier that year, attended the school when she was growing up in Milwaukee. [660 x 455]
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