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From my local newspaper’s “Glimpses in the Past” section. This is what was published in the paper 110 years ago.
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«If Britain closes its doors...» A caricature of Brexit, 2016.
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Ariel View of the Windsor Castle,Uk
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Jimmy Carter stated in an interview later in life that had he used military force against Iran, he would have won reelection. How true is this?
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The Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Osman Ali Khan pays homage to the Emperor and Empress (George V and Queen Mary) at the Delhi Durbar, December 1911. [1200×1461]
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1942: Waiting for the Signal From Home
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Jewish woman chased by men and youth armed with clubs during the Lviv pogroms, 1941, Ukraine [438x600]
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Actress Dawn Wells and a friend, 1960s.
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'In the classrooms of China, the map has a new name for Australia' — American anti-communist cartoon (1975) showing a Chinese teacher pointing to an Australia conquered and renamed 'New China'. Published in 'Kings of the East' by evangelist Jack Chick.
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Wenceslao "El Fusilado" Moguel, left disfigured after surviving a firing squad execution, sharing a moment with Robert L. Ripley on the set of Ripley's Believe It or Not! radio show, 1937 [640x376]
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New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle after being slammed to the ground by a Pittsburgh Steelers lineman in Pittsburgh on Sept. 20, 1964. The photograph immortalized Tittle in football lore as the epitome of the aging warrior who had finally fallen. [858x1024]
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Ethiopian troops arrived in Korea. The vast majority of UN troops were American, but the troops also included representatives from more than a dozen different national contingents. (1951) [1224x948]
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A kendo class for boys. Japan, 1929 [2072x1548]
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Nanjing road, downtown Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution, December 1967. The giant neon banner on the right reads "wishing a long life for Chairman Mao" [1280x1780]
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Youngsters at the Video Game Arcade, 1982. [2153x1373]
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May Day demonstration in 1986 in Kiev (Ukraine, USSR) just a few days after the disaster at Chernobyl, 1986 [1000x673].
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My 10th birthday (98) with Hooters girls at my parents bowling alley.
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03/05/1919 - An exemple of the Pontanezen duckboard, the offial newspaper of the Pontanezen american military camp at the city of Brest in France [3096x4128]
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Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, former Prime Minister of South Vietnam, working at a liquor store in Los Angeles, after settling in the United States following the fall of South Vietnam - 1977 [1024x775]
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1935 cover of “Sonne ins Haus”, a Nazi family magazine, featuring Hessy Levinsons Taft, winner of a "most beautiful Aryan baby" contest. She was Jewish.
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My mom and her best friend 80’s
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German and Polish volunteers on the side of the Boers during the siege of Kimberley. Between October 1899 and February 1900, the Second Boer War. [1200×783]
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The USS Pasadena giving assistance to the Bunker Hill engulfed in thick black smoke after being hit by 2 Kamikazes off Okinawa, 11th May 1945. 393 Sailors and aircrew were killed or missing in the attack [2765x2069]
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A muddied Combat Engineer of the United States Fifth Army enjoys a cup of coffee and a doughnut supplied by the Red Cross in Italy, 1944. [761x720]
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A muddied Combat Engineer of the United States Fifth Army enjoys a cup of coffee and a doughnut supplied by the Red Cross in Italy, 1944.
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Fort Douaumont, Before and After, 1916
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The moment a mortar shell exploded next to an American soldier in Italy, 24 April 1944 [3600 × 2906]
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Captain Edwin "Bill" Fisher, 377th Fighter Squadron stands on the noseof his P47D Thunderbolt "Shirley Jane III" in Normandy, 1944. He would be credited with 7 kills and 3 V-1 flying bombs. He was killed in a training accident at Andrews Field, Maryland on the 28th March 1947 [730x1091]
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4/26/1995: Courtney Love reportedly turns down $1 million to pose nude for Playboy magazine.
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