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"Orlęta lwowskie" ('Lviv eaglets'). Oil on canvas by a Polish painter Wojciech Kossak showing battle at Lviv cemetery during Polish-Ukrainian war 1918-1919.
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A photograph taken of 11-year-old Florence "Sally" Horner several months after she was kidnapped by 51-year-old Frank La Salle. La Salle held Horner captive for a total of 21 months, New Jersey, 1948 [543 x 970].
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Mary Hughes and Kathy Kessler "Muscle Beach Party" (1964)
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch in the 1870s. The word Masochist is derived from his name. The term was used in lifetime and he did not approve. [650x961]
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Hermann Castle, also known as the Narva castle or Narva fortress, is a medieval castle in the city of Narva, in northeastern Estonia. The castle was established around 1256, when the area was part of the Danish Realm.
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Men waiting to be executed during communist purge in Indonesia 1965.
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Iraqi Insurgents operating in the mid 2000s against US forces. [1200x800]
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The Eight Nazi Saboteurs of Operation Pastorius caught on American soil during World War II. Washington DC, 1942 [1020x650]
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The last photo of former German Army colonel Erich Hammon, taken an hour before his execution by firing squad. A British military tribunal had convicted Hammon of murdering a recently liberated Russian slave laborer in Flensburg on V.E. Day, Allied-occupied Germany, May 30, 1945 [446 x 700].
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Mikhail Gorbachev hands files to Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski detailing the deaths of 21,000 Polish soldiers executed by the NKVD in 1940 - the first time the Soviet government admitted responsibility for the Katyn Massacre, 13 April 1990 [1000x656]
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This is Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov, the Soviet ethnographer who deciphered the Mayan writing system, 1980.
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«Just A Number» Political cartoon by Jeff Parker (Florida Today), 2008
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Michelle Pfeiffer, 1980's. Drop dead gorgeous but what a career.....Scarface, The Witches of Eastwick, Married to the Mob, the best Catwoman ever in Batman Returns, Dangerous Minds, Hairspray, on and on.
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[OC] Questions to the Heaven (from my worldbuilding project)
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An Afghan communist revolutionary wearing traditional clothing and holding an AK-47 in Kabul, 1984. [1080x1440]
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"Now you're safe from terrorist attacks" (Chappate, 2006)
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Launch of the James Caird lifeboat from Elephant Island on April 24th 1916. Ernest Shackleton and five others would journey over 800 miles to rescue the 22 trapped on the Antarctic island[500X363].
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Singaporean PM Lee Kuan Yew visits the Pulau Senang, a prison island where inmates could move freely, work, and build their own society. The experiment ended in a complete disaster. After a failed uprising in which four guards were killed, 59 prisoners went on trial for murder, 1963 [830 x 464].
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RAF reconnaissance photo taken on May 21st, 1941, at 26,000 feet, showing the 823.6-foot (251 m) German battleship Bismarck, revealing its position and leading to its sinking six days later [1284X1151].
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Salvation Army Red Shield comforts tent. New Guinea, WW2. Oil on canvas by WE Pidgeon.
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This is America… Keep it Free! (ca 1944). The Greatest Generation had the right idea! [1256x1810]
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