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Construction of the Rome subway under the grounds of the Colosseum, 1939. Rome subway has just turned 70, being inaugurated in February 1955 [1885x1370]
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Posthumous photo of Roman Shukhevych, a commander of the UPA. A bullet hole is visible on his temple, he shot himself to avoid being captured by Soviet secret police. Known for the ethnic cleanings of Poles from Galicia during WW2 (1950)(400x297)
https://redd.it/1iutgre
"In Front Of The TV" By Yuliy Mikhaylovich Vecherskiy, 1996 Russia
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Members of the National Socialist Workers Party of Iran and their leader, SS member Davud Monshizadeh (with the stash) in the 1950s [1670x1670]
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Actress Penny Edwards (1950s)
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Armed Cowboys Militias (Vaqueanos) in Brazil’s Contestado War (1912) [860px × 570px]
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John and Julian Lennon visit the set of 'Happy Days,' mid-1970s [960x684]
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima. The Marine Corps’ costly victory here provided an emergency landing site for B-29 bombers, which increased the range and survival rate of the bombers in the “Island Hopping” campaign to attack the Japanese mainland. (2/19/1945) [2048x1504]
https://redd.it/1itfm0r
Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek, New York 1999
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This patient is hopeless. He was diagnosed with a complete lack of dollars. Soviet Union,1950s
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In honor of BHM , this is the mugshot of Carl Braden. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for buying a home in his name, in place of his friend (a veteran), because the real estate broker refused to sell to Negroes (1954).
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We're fighting to prevent this! 1943, USA
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"In the United States, you are 'free' from liberty" (CCCP, 1973)
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Airborne rocket attack, October 14, 1943
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British soldier receiving painful injection from a nurse along the Russian front
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Physicist Richard P. Feynman, captured at Los Alamos—the secret site that built the atomic bomb—during World War II (1944) [2111x2710]
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Pile of bodies in Dachau concentration camp, Germany. April-May 1945 [480-290]
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Steinacleit stones, Outer Hebrides
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Unit 731 scientists preparing to make incisions on a strapped-down victim. Between 1936 and 1945. [2135x1449].
https://redd.it/1iu9c3d
Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and 4 bears he and other dignitaries hunted. In the early 1970s, he banned all hunting to keep the fattest bears for himself, which he could brag about to other communist leaders. He still holds the European record for the largest bear hunted. [650x478]
https://redd.it/1it56li
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy decorates a young boy with a gold medal of military valor, 1942 [480×720]
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Thousands of senior citizens gather to protest budget cuts before City Hall in Manhattan, NYC (May 1991) [3980 x 3246]
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Johnny Bratton vs. Joe Miceli (31.101952) - Commentary Rocky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_H46JysONo
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A black U.S. soldier reads a message left by the Việt Cộng during the Vietnam War, the message reads: "U.S. Negro Armymen, you are committing the same ignominious crimes in South Vietnam that the KKK clique is perpetrating against your family at home.", 1970 [640 x 428]
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Me and my wife (then girlfriend) in college in 1981 and a few months ago. Married 42 years
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Actress Jayne Mansfield (1950s)
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Mads Mikkelsen and wife Hanne Jacobsen in the late 90s. They have known each other for 38 years
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A brigade of Navarrese "Requetés" (carlist paramilitaries) in Pamplona, during the Spanish Civil War (1937) [1024 x 651]
https://redd.it/1irmtjm
Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England. It was built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, a former knight of Edward III, with the permission of Richard II, ostensibly to defend the area against French invasion during the Hundred Years' War
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George Metesky - bomber who terrorized New York City from the 1940s to 1957, planted 33 bombs. He was found legally insane and committed to a state mental hospital. [800x669]
https://redd.it/1ir4bkd