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"And still they come!", John Henry Gilmour, xenophobic cartoon published in 'New Zealand Truth', 1925.
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Louis Armstrong serenades his wife at the Sphinx. Egypt 1961 (1303x1007)
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Schloss Matzen, Austria 🇦🇹
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Hermanus Willem Koekkoek (Dutch, 1867-1929) - The Charge of Dargai, 20 October 1897, The Tirah Campaign, Undated
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Actress Virginia Mayo (1940s)
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Soldiers of the Swedish Landstorm guarding the coast, Furuskär, ca. 1916 [800x603]
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"Evolution of a Russian" english caricature from the 19th century
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John F. Schrank after his arrest. On October 14, 1912, Schrank shot former president and Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt outside a Milwaukee hotel. [662 x 941].
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29 May 1953. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mount Everest. [5067 x 3483]
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80 years ago today, on May 28, 1945, British fascist William Joyce ("Lord Haw Haw") was captured in Flensburg. He later became the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom. [722x767][Colorized]
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A Dayak man gnaws on the severed leg of a killed Madurese settler, near Singkawang, Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. March, 1999. [1920x1560]
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I hate Reagan. Here’s somethings I don’t hate about him
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“There is no Czecho-Slovak nation” Hungarian anti-Czechoslovakia card in English and French advocating for the breakup of Czechoslovakia based on its multiethnic population (1920s)
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The Lincoln Memorial in 1920. [1500x1046]
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Joy White stands next to the empty crib meant for her newborn daughter. Her baby, Carlina, was 19 days old when she was kidnapped from a hospital in Harlem, New York. The girl was found alive over 20 years later, 1987 [948 x 623].
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Doffer Boys" Macon, Ga. (ca. 1909)
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Dawn Wells American Actress - Mary Ann Gilligan's Island - (Circa 1970's)
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The Castle of Cardona, located in the heart of Catalonia, Spain.
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Soviets open the tomb of Timur in Uzbekistan, the Mongol founder of the Timurid Empire, which apparently started a curse a week before the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Timur was reburied a month before the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, which apparently ended the curse. (June 1941)(900x600)
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One of the only known photos of Subha Talfah, the mother of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taken sometime in the 1950's or 60's. Subha unsuccessfully tried to abort Saddam before he was born. (594x424)
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Percy Fawcett, who disappeared 100 years ago today and was never seen again whilst on an expedition into the Amazon Rainforest looking for a lost city he referred to as “Z”. May 1925,[705x1147].
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and President George H. W. Bush in 1991
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National Parks worker James Hudson uses a cloth-wrapped pole to clean Lincoln's ear at the Lincoln Memorial in 1987 - Bettmann / Getty [1856x1233]
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1945 Brazilian political cartoon satirizing President Getúlio Vargas's shift between far-right, liberal and left-wing rhetoric.
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Alexei Nikolaevich, (3rd from right) son of the Tsar Nicholas II, smacks another boy in the face for making a mistake during a cadet drill, 1917. 600x293)
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Actress Ann Miller - 1941 publicity photo
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King George VI of Great Britain was a very serious man, 1938. [ 650 x 856 ]
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Jerzy Andziak was a Holocaust survivor and a convicted murderer. He was 14 when he became a slave laborer in 1943, 16 when he was freed in 1945, 20 when he killed a man in a botched burglary in 1948, and 21 when he was executed in 1949. In a plea for clemency, he wrote about what he saw [596 x 335].
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In 1921, Ada Blackjack joined an Arctic expedition team consisting of four men. She spent two years surviving alone on Wrangel Island and was the only member of the team to make it back alive.(320x213)
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