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USS Yorktown (CV-5) listing heavily to port after being abandoned during the afternoon of June 4, 1942
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Fireman L. Pavlov near the boiler furnace. Expedition on the icebreaker "Joseph Stalin" to rescue the icebreaker steamship "Georgiy Sedov" from drifting ice in the Greenland Sea, December 1939. Photo: Debabov D. G.
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Soviet Cold War Propaganda from the 1960s.
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Hugh Thompson, the hero who stopped a massacre committed by US troops in the Vietnamese village of My Lai by landing his helicopter in the line of fire, 1968.
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"The atom shall work for peace, for communism!" USSR, 1976
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Fort Louvois, Bourcefranc-le-Chapus, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France 🇫🇷
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Czechoslovak soldiers stand guard on the Trans-Siberian Railway with mosquito nets around their heads, Russia, c. 1920 [1080x659]
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Raquel Welch, as nun in 1972.
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''Don't Join The Book Burners'' - anti-McCarthyist cartoon (''The Baltimore Sun'', artist: Richard Quincy Yardley) published after Dwight D. Eisenhower's address at the Dartmouth College Commencement Exercises, United States, June 16, 1953
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Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (c. 1880)
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An aged Civil War veteran of the Grand Army of the Republic is assisted during a parade, San Francisco, 1903. [1170 x 878]
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A Belgian father brought an African child in a cage to his daughters for their entertainment, 1950s.
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2002 Venezuelan mural featuring Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, and Muammar Gaddafi.
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A happy Hitler with happy children, 1936 [894x1299]
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Raped? Seek Free Treatment Now (Liberia, 2005)
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A young man caring for his grandfather, 1974 [526x789]
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37 years ago today [6/4/88] my best friend (far right) and I (2nd from left) at the Pink Floyd show at the Meadowlands NJ. This photo is 10 minutes after I met my eventual wife (far left). We started dating 8 days later, eventually married, and about to celebrate our 28th anniversary.
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Noodle Delivery Boy In Tokyo, 1935 [700x804]
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The Tiananmen square massacre in which the Chinese government killed somewhere between 1000 to 10000 protesters was 36 years ago today. 1989. [392x254]
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'An Awful Blot' — American cartoon (ca. 1914) showing Uncle Sam standing next to a map of the US blotted with 'Child Labor'.
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"The Hooded Man" a prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison with wires attached to his fingers, standing on a box with a covered head. 2003 [800x1068]
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Constance Markievicz poses with a revolver in her Irish Citizens Army uniform, Ireland, c. 1915. A year later she would wear this same uniform in the 1916 Rising. [800x701]
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14 year old Osama Bin Laden in Oxford during his visit to Britain, far right. 1971. [1200x704]
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The last public execution by guillotine. June 17, 1939 at Versailles France. [1375 x 740]
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[736x1066] Lieutenant Audie Murphy,the most condecorated man of US army history,1945
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Jack Black in 1992 at age 23.
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Argentine dentist Ricardo Barreda during his trial on August of 1995 for the 1992 murders of his wife, two daughters, and mother in law in the city of La Plata. He committed the murders with a rifle after reportedly being insulted. He was released from prison in 2011. [1440x1084]
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1938. Tourists drinking tea at the top of the Great Pyramid [1000 x 861]
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A defeated German soldier sits in front of a burning Reichstag in Berlin in May, 1945. (720×900)
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