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.
https://redd.it/1oniya2

[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].
https://redd.it/1oorf5v

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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"Save your children", Italian anti-communist poster issued by the Christian Democracy Party, c. 1952
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Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen covered in paint by a protester over Iraq invasion involvement. (2003) [1240x826]
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Hampton Lee, 24, Hugh Evans, 22, and Willis Evans, 18, are taken into custody for harassing a woman returning home from a party late at night, beating her male friend unconscious for trying to intervene, then kidnapping, robbing, and gang-raping her (South Carolina, September 22, 1940) [1000 x 772].
https://redd.it/1opl9p6

Leftist Iranian students calling for armed resistance against the Pahlavi government. USA, 1970s [1224x856]
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Volcanologist David A. Johnston, pictured 13 hours before he lost his life during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. He was the first to report the eruption from an observation post 6 miles away, transmitting "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" before being overtaken by the blast [943x1327]
https://redd.it/1opw4qv

19-year-old Brigitte Bardot during the Cannes Film Festival, 1953
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[1778x1330] Lindbergh Tries Motor Earth Runs. Detroit Free Press, 25th Feb 1928.
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Since you all loved my dad in LA 1974, here he is in Latvia, c. 1910
https://redd.it/1oq8duo