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Mikhail Gorbachev hands files to Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski detailing the deaths of 21,000 Polish soldiers executed by the NKVD in 1940 - the first time the Soviet government admitted responsibility for the Katyn Massacre, 13 April 1990 [1000x656]
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The Eight Nazi Saboteurs of Operation Pastorius caught on American soil during World War II. Washington DC, 1942 [1020x650]
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Men waiting to be executed during communist purge in Indonesia 1965.
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch in the 1870s. The word Masochist is derived from his name. The term was used in lifetime and he did not approve. [650x961]
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A photograph taken of 11-year-old Florence "Sally" Horner several months after she was kidnapped by 51-year-old Frank La Salle. La Salle held Horner captive for a total of 21 months, New Jersey, 1948 [543 x 970].
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Back in the 80s, men rocked crop tops and mesh like it was nothing.
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American soldiers meet an Armigero in 1944, Florence. [1150 x 1007]
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Former Chicago police officer Richard Nuccio (left) accepts a $1,300 check from other police officers for his defense fund. Nuccio had just been convicted of murder in the 1968 on-duty slaying of a teenager whom he said attacked him with a knife. No knife was ever found, Illinois, 1971 [1200 x 887].
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Two students in their dorm room at the University of Illinois, 1910 [640x632]
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Mom as Elvira in San Diego - 1980s
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"I Am DEATH" - Indiana State Board of Health Advertisement [1912]
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By Nick Anderson, 2019.
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Hohenzollern Castle, perched above the Swabian Jura, Germany.
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Keanu Reeves hanging out with a homeless man in West Hollywood (1997)
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Toni Jo Henry, the only woman to die in Louisiana’s electric chair, heads to the Calcasieu Courthouse to be executed, her headscarf hid a freshly shaved head. November 28, 1942 [1536 x 2301]
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The last photo of former German Army colonel Erich Hammon, taken an hour before his execution by firing squad. A British military tribunal had convicted Hammon of murdering a recently liberated Russian slave laborer in Flensburg on V.E. Day, Allied-occupied Germany, May 30, 1945 [446 x 700].
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Iraqi Insurgents operating in the mid 2000s against US forces. [1200x800]
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Hermann Castle, also known as the Narva castle or Narva fortress, is a medieval castle in the city of Narva, in northeastern Estonia. The castle was established around 1256, when the area was part of the Danish Realm.
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Mary Hughes and Kathy Kessler "Muscle Beach Party" (1964)
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"Orlęta lwowskie" ('Lviv eaglets'). Oil on canvas by a Polish painter Wojciech Kossak showing battle at Lviv cemetery during Polish-Ukrainian war 1918-1919.
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Dressed as Mario for Halloween 1990
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Gary Sinise here wishing you all a Happy Halloween. Here I am with my childhood friends on Halloween from 1960 in Blue Island, Illinois
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Joseph Goebbels(with his hand on left side of his face) listening to a speech by Walter Ulbricht(future leader of East-Germany) in a joint Communist-Nazi event, Berlin, 22 January 1931 (1024×709)
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Orson Welles signaling for silence inside CBS's radio studio while directing the infamous "War of the Worlds" radio show that numerous sources claimed lead to mass panic due to most listeners tuning in late and the show itself having no commercial breaks (October 30th, 1938) [1296x730]
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Jamie Lee Curtis in 1995
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Nat King Cole's family in Los Angeles during the late 1950s after moving into a wealthy white neighborhood, they stood their ground even when racist neighbors burned a cross in their yard and allegedly even poisoned their family dog. [679x675]
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My 18 year old sister and a friend in 1962 with her Nash Metropolitan
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Migrant boy in Edinburg, Texas, 1939
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“China: One Country, Many Systems” USA, 1997
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