Pakistani dictator Yahya Khan dying under house arrest, late 1970's. in 1971 Khan presided over the Bangladeshi genocide, in which the Pakistani military murdered & raped hundreds of thousands of its own citizens. After years of extremely heavy drinking, Khan had a stroke & died in 1980 (1300x852)
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A photo of Congressman William A. Hall. Originally from Portland, Maine, he gained notoriety for presiding at the 1855 trial of Celia, a 19-year-old slave who killed her master, who'd been raping her for years. Celia was executed after Hall ruled that she had no right to defend herself [383 x 511].
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A security guard walking down US Highway 101 where there are towering stacks of hollow iron floats from which the iron antisubmarine nets were suspended to protect the US ports during the last war, by Hank Walker, 1953.[540×702]
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German chancellor Otto Von Bismarck and his mastiffs, 1886. They were known for being fiercely protective of their owner, and at the 1878 Congress of Berlin one of them attacked the Russian chancellor, Alexander Gorchakov (1606x1138)
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Troops from Indonesia are pointing their guns at civilians during Operation Seroja. Timor Leste. December 7, 1975 [600x400]
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Inside Le Monocle photographed by Brassaï in 1932. Le Monocle was a lesbian nightclub that was open in Paris from the 1920s right up until WW2. Brassaï had been invited to spend the evening photographing the patrons enjoying themselves. (1024x739)
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General, Charles Chuck Yeager. WWII, Korea, Vietnam photo 1943 [751x960]
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A then 114 year old Christian Mortensen and 2nd oldest man in history smoking a cigarette in a wheelchair, United States, 1997, [800 x 618]
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A destroyed Iraqi army tank during the Persian Gulf War, 1991.
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US Soldiers with the 132nd Infantry Regiment tasked with occupying the "Grassy Knoll" (Mount Austen) on Guadalcanal get resupplied with ammunition on the rear slope of Hill 35 - December 1942
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'Battle for Tumbledown Mountain' by Steve Noon; In a battle lasting for hours during the night of 13/14 June 1982, 2nd Battalion, The Scots Guards, fought to drive the Argentine defenders of the Batallón de Infantería de Marina 5, from their dug-in positions on top of Tumbledown Mountain.
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Schloss Drachenburg - Castle in Königswinter, Germany
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A Chinese American wearing a sign to avoid harassment, 1940s [1600x1259]
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KKK Grand Dragon Arthur Bell shakes hands with August Klapprott, Vice Fuhrer of of the German American Bund, at a meeting to discuss a potential alliance. Viewing this as an act of treason, the Klan would strip Bell of his position and report him to federal government (New Jersey, 1942) [970 x 533].
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'His Struggle, Your Death' — Soviet photomontage from the Second World War (ca. 1941) by Aleksandr Zhitomirsky.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Tony Kiritsis holding a shotgun to the head of his mortgage broker, Richard Hall. Kiritsis had fallen behind on mortgage payments. When Hall refused to grant him an extension, Kirtsis kidnapped him and held him hostage for 63 hours (Indiana, 1977) [1320 x 746].
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https://redd.it/1pj69uz