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Two members of the French ‘Red Warriors’, a Parisian street gang that fought with the rising neo-Nazi movement in the 1980s punk scene.
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Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston at a Radiohead concert, 1998
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Pedro Figari. Uruguayan painter, writer and lawyer. Ca.1885
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My Mom&Dad, around 1945, somewhere on Long Island,New York
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That look!👀 80‘
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My Grandma at 14 smoking and drinking alcohol whilst at school, (1967)
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General practitioner and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams reads a newspaper covering his recent acquittal for murder. Between 1946 and 1956, 163 of his patients had died while in comas. In addition, 132 out of 310 patients left him money or items in their wills, London, 1957 [2045 x 2048].
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Army Gunner Corporal. Carlton Chapman, of Giles County Virginia, poses in his M4 Sherman tank near Nancy, France, on November 5, 1944. Chapman served in the 761st Tank Battalion"
Sadly Carlton was fatally wounded on November 9, 1944 just four days after this photo was taken. He was 32 years old
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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein touching the black stone of the Kaaba in Mecca while performing an Islamic pilgrimage, 1980's. Although Iraq's Ba'ath party was originally secular, Saddam still publicly claimed to be a pious muslim. (1340x960)
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Two B-17 waist gunners taking a selfie, ca 1944 [736x501]
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A South African sentry stands guard with a smile on his face as a Malagasy girl imitates him. Taken during the Allied invasion of Madagascar. September 1942, Madagascar [1473x2048]
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"Extent of Communist Empire today" flyer from an FBI-produced pamphlet on communism distributed to young Americans, 1963
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Salma Hayek, 1995
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Ella Fitzgerald after being arrested for singing to an integrated audience, 1955. [640x601]
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Eighteen-year-old Lowell Lee Andrews (center) stands as the police and divers search the Kansas River for parts of the guns he used to kill his family. One newspaper described Andrews, a Kansas University sophomore majoring in biology, as the "nicest boy in Wolcott", Kansas, 1958 [600 x 765].
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"Don't be like that!" USSR. Postcard. 1956
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Late 1920s. Context unknown, presumably big pig used for show. [1827x2752]
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On the evening of March 2nd 1944, the worst railway disaster in Italy occurred when a train burning low-grade coal stalled in a tunnel, 517 people, mostly stowaways, died from carbon monoxide poisoning. [630x250]
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On 11-Sep-1945, former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest when a US Army Counterintelligence unit arrived at his house to arrest him. US Army doctors, pictured her, managed to save him to stand trial and be hanged later.
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The Oval Office during the Kennedy administration, 1960s (619 × 495)
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A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri [800 x 493].
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