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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was arrested for protesting in 1961 and was subjected to mental health testing because authorities couldn’t understand why a white woman would support civil rights.
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Don't drink methyl alcohol! Warn your comrades!
USSR, 1946
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“The First Day of War” Soviet civilians in Moscow listen to the radio announcement that Germany has invaded the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941 (1590x1200)
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A jailhouse photo of D.B. Napier, taken after his arrest for raping and murdering a teenage girl. After the police saved him from a lynch mob, a shaken Napier confessed that he'd once helped lynch someone nearly 20 years earlier. The confession made national headlines, Louisiana, 1934 [552 x 841].
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in 1991 Bernie Sanders delivered a speech to an empty U.S congress, advising against military intervention in the Gulf War.
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People on deck of S.S. Coamo leaving New York Harbor 1941
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Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635x861)
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A Soviet teenager cleans the boots of a wounded German soldier at a train station, 1943 (3500x2425)
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The Oval Office during the Kennedy administration, 1960s (619 × 495)
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On the evening of March 2nd 1944, the worst railway disaster in Italy occurred when a train burning low-grade coal stalled in a tunnel, 517 people, mostly stowaways, died from carbon monoxide poisoning. [630x250]
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"Don't be like that!" USSR. Postcard. 1956
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Ella Fitzgerald after being arrested for singing to an integrated audience, 1955. [640x601]
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"Extent of Communist Empire today" flyer from an FBI-produced pamphlet on communism distributed to young Americans, 1963
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Two B-17 waist gunners taking a selfie, ca 1944 [736x501]
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Army Gunner Corporal. Carlton Chapman, of Giles County Virginia, poses in his M4 Sherman tank near Nancy, France, on November 5, 1944. Chapman served in the 761st Tank Battalion"
Sadly Carlton was fatally wounded on November 9, 1944 just four days after this photo was taken. He was 32 years old
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Arnold Schwarzenegger showing off his American citizenship, 1983.
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Monica Mening Macias Bindan, daughter of Equatorial Guinean dictator Francisco Macias Nguema, living in North Korea in the 1980's. After Nguema's dictatorship was overthrown in 1979 he had Monica shipped there and she became Kim Il Sung's adopted daughter (2560x1830)
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1865 portrait of Brigham Young, 2nd president of the Church of Latter-day Saints, founder of Salt Lake city & the first Governor of Utah. Young had 57 children with 56 different wives (5624x4242)
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Japanese and German children sing songs during a Hitler Youth trip to Japan, 1938 (928x1300)
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Jane Goodall with infant chimp Flint in Tanzania, 1964 [1920 x 1080]
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African-American activist & NAACP founder W.E.B. Dubois meeting with Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong, 1959 (1200x888)
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A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri [800 x 493].
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On 11-Sep-1945, former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest when a US Army Counterintelligence unit arrived at his house to arrest him. US Army doctors, pictured her, managed to save him to stand trial and be hanged later.
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Late 1920s. Context unknown, presumably big pig used for show. [1827x2752]
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Eighteen-year-old Lowell Lee Andrews (center) stands as the police and divers search the Kansas River for parts of the guns he used to kill his family. One newspaper described Andrews, a Kansas University sophomore majoring in biology, as the "nicest boy in Wolcott", Kansas, 1958 [600 x 765].
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A South African sentry stands guard with a smile on his face as a Malagasy girl imitates him. Taken during the Allied invasion of Madagascar. September 1942, Madagascar [1473x2048]
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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein touching the black stone of the Kaaba in Mecca while performing an Islamic pilgrimage, 1980's. Although Iraq's Ba'ath party was originally secular, Saddam still publicly claimed to be a pious muslim. (1340x960)
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General practitioner and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams reads a newspaper covering his recent acquittal for murder. Between 1946 and 1956, 163 of his patients had died while in comas. In addition, 132 out of 310 patients left him money or items in their wills, London, 1957 [2045 x 2048].
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