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The B-2 stealth bomber “Spirit of America” carried out the longest bombing run in history, flying over 44 hours from Missouri to bomb Afghanistan, seen here in the opening stages of Operation Enduring Freedom, October 8, 2001. [1444x722]
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19th-century Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho, 1880's. One of the biggest crime bosses in Japan & one of the richest, most powerful men in the entire country. He had powerful ties to the Japanese government during both the Shogunate & the Meiji restoration (1307x1300)
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Cannibals with their victims, Samara province, Volga region, Russia (1921) [2199x2990]
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Audie Murphy would've been 100 years old today.
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Tossing dishes at the rich guy at the Highland Park carnival - Photography by George Skadding, 1947 [1096 x 950]
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Father mourns his child after the dayr Yassin massacre of 1948 (420x305)
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Children’s text book used in India (2015)
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Bud the Pit Bull, became the first dog to cross the United States in an automobile alongside his owner Horatio Nelson Jackson in 1903. (636x446)
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Joseph Efimovsky - "We are different people..." (1980)
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Former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny in Madrid, Spain, 1970. Skorzeny led the famous 1943 Gran Sasso raid in which Mussolini was rescued from captivity. After the war he escaped allied captivity & worked as an arms dealer, advising authoritarian leaders like Nasser & Peron, as well as Mossad. (1300x859)
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Maid cooking for middle class family, South Carolina, 1956, kodachrome [1200x807]
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Babe Heffron and Bill Guarnere of “Band of Brothers” fame visit the grave of a fallen comrade, 1950s [750x539]
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"Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri by Dorothea Lange
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a shark he caught during his cruise aboard USS Houston (CA-30), 1 August 1938 [2840x2115]
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Welsh Strongwoman Miriam Kate Williams "Vulcana" in her show outfit during her prime, circa 1890. [840x1311]
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Andy Warhol was shot by a radical feminist in 1968. The bullet bounced around inside him hitting his stomach, spleen, liver, esophagus & lungs [1280x1752]
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Dustin Honken was an Iowa chemistry student who used his newfound knowledge to become a meth kingpin. In 1992, he enlisted his best friend, moved to Arizona, and borrowed $5,000 to buy chemicals and equipment. Within a year, the two managed to produce several pounds of nearly pure meth [461 x 621].
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A German photographer took photos of Indians in 1920s
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Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly waiting backstage at the 28th Annual Academy Awards, 1956 [1200x800]
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Evelyn McHale, who leapt to her death from the Empire State Building, 1947. [880x1120]
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Serial killer Jake Bird (center) sits with two men asking him about his crimes. After his conviction, Bird declared, "All you guys who had anything to do with this case are going to die before I do." Five people tied to the case died within a year, Washington State Penitentiary, 1949 [1222 x 606].
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Civil rights activists "Freedom Riders" are beaten up by a mob after attempting a sit in, Birmingham, Alabama, 14 of May 1961 [1000x754]
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I lost my eye to cancer when I was about 5. This is me on my first picture day (1998).
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December 1935. “Resettled farm child. From Taos Junction
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Wehrmacht officers surrendering to the Norwegian resistance May 1945 [720x473]
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Civil War veteran Samuel Decker poses with the prosthetic arms he somehow made for himself, 1867. [320x495]
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