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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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A Soviet teenager cleans the boots of a wounded German soldier at a train station, 1943 (3500x2425)
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African-American activist & NAACP founder W.E.B. Dubois meeting with Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong, 1959 (1200x888)
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Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635x861)
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Jane Goodall with infant chimp Flint in Tanzania, 1964 [1920 x 1080]
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People on deck of S.S. Coamo leaving New York Harbor 1941
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Japanese and German children sing songs during a Hitler Youth trip to Japan, 1938 (928x1300)
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in 1991 Bernie Sanders delivered a speech to an empty U.S congress, advising against military intervention in the Gulf War.
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Rebecca Romijn, 1990s
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A jailhouse photo of D.B. Napier, taken after his arrest for raping and murdering a teenage girl. After the police saved him from a lynch mob, a shaken Napier confessed that he'd once helped lynch someone nearly 20 years earlier. The confession made national headlines, Louisiana, 1934 [552 x 841].
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1865 portrait of Brigham Young, 2nd president of the Church of Latter-day Saints, founder of Salt Lake city & the first Governor of Utah. Young had 57 children with 56 different wives (5624x4242)
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“The First Day of War” Soviet civilians in Moscow listen to the radio announcement that Germany has invaded the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941 (1590x1200)
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Monica Mening Macias Bindan, daughter of Equatorial Guinean dictator Francisco Macias Nguema, living in North Korea in the 1980's. After Nguema's dictatorship was overthrown in 1979 he had Monica shipped there and she became Kim Il Sung's adopted daughter (2560x1830)
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Don't drink methyl alcohol! Warn your comrades!
USSR, 1946
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Arnold Schwarzenegger showing off his American citizenship, 1983.
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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was arrested for protesting in 1961 and was subjected to mental health testing because authorities couldn’t understand why a white woman would support civil rights.
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