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Jeju citizens awaiting execution during the Jeju massacre of 1948. [494x332]
https://redd.it/1aetqpm
Captured Luftwaffe Officer Arriving at Newhaven Port. 1941
https://redd.it/1aemdxn
Kurt von Schuschnigg, the former fascist dictator of Austria, announces that he is retiring and returning to Austria. After World War II, Schuschnigg moved to the United States, where he worked as a professor of political science at St. Louis University for nearly 20 years, 1967 [2048 x 1362].
https://redd.it/1adzvnw
Marilyn Monroe during a costume test for Something's Got to Give (1962), the film in which she passed away before completing.
https://redd.it/1ae30qw
Given the current crisis in the British Royal Navy, a peek back at much happier times. The Coronation Fleet Review in 1953. [1024x767]
https://redd.it/1adwz5n
A pretty lady from St. Petersbourg. Photo by Carl Bergamasco. 1870s
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Shark mouth on a German Bf-109, ca 1943 (Original color photo) [500x470]
https://redd.it/1adcne0
London secretary showing off the latest fashions, 1966
https://redd.it/1ad2v91
Chief John Smith was an Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian who lived in the area of Cass Lake, Minnesota. He died in 1922 at the (alleged) ripe old age of 137.
https://redd.it/18w3bnx
Tricycle Gang in Brooklyn, New York City, 1930s. (1079×792)
https://redd.it/18wdoyx
Russian woman, with the background of the burnt out Parliament building, and a BTR APC - Moscow, Russia – aftermath of the constitutional crisis, c. October 1993. [960 x 648]
https://redd.it/18vrzxh
Actress Lana Turner -- 1941
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In 1958, car seat safety was rudimentary, with seats not being equipped with any straps. Instead, these seats depended on the mother extending her arm to prevent the baby from toppling forward.
https://redd.it/18s2idl
The upper chamber of the Supreme Soviet in its final session, voting the USSR out of existence, 26 December 1991 [1,024 × 699]
https://redd.it/18rft2g
A family in front of their new house, 123 years ago. 1900 (1080×681)
https://redd.it/18qkcjt
"If you think the Soviet threat is a myth just ask a Pole": 1981
https://redd.it/1aeq1zb
Barbarism vs Civlization, anti-colonial French cartoon, 1899
https://redd.it/1aek5h4
Swedish soldiers (under UN flag) interrogating a Katangese mercenary sniper they caught hiding in a tree, Congo 1961. [600 x 500]
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Civil war veterans inspect tank at 1939 World’s Fair in NYC.
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Mao Yichang, (1870-1920) Chinese farmer & grain merchant who fathered communist dictator Mao Zedong, early 1910's. Ironically, Yichang was a wealthy farmer & landowner by the standards of the environment he grew up in. (260x405)
https://redd.it/1adp4h8
More of a political cartoon on neocolonialism - 1998
https://redd.it/1adnvt9
Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguay's 35-year CIA-backed dictator, days after his overthrow, 1989. A pedophile who murdered & tortured thousands of dissidents & harbored Nazis like Josef Mengele, he ruled longer than any Latin-American dictator beside Castro. He died at 94 years old a free man. (2048x1930)
https://redd.it/1acwvbl
A New York iron worker walks along a girder high above the city streets 1950. [1301x1592]
https://redd.it/18woxe9
Elizabeth Short unsolved murder Jan 15 1947
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A photograph of unidentified My Lai Massacre victims moments before being killed by American GIs. Taken by Ronald L. Haeberle on the 16th March 1968. [400 × 600]
https://redd.it/18vvilh
The Planters: 1941 by Jack Delano
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That’s a pretty risqué joke for the 1940s!
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At least the war is over for him- German POW in a church in Colleville-sur-Mer Normandy, France, 1944. [1440x1440]
https://redd.it/18ryks7
Tom Hurndall, British photography student, being carried unconscious by two local youth after he was shot in the head in the Gaza Strip by a (IDF) sniper, Taysir Hayb while attempting to rescue a child who had been pinned down by gunfire on 11 April 2003. (2003) [1200x900]
https://redd.it/18rhlmv
1960s Hot Wheels assembly line. [1230x1591]
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