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José Capablanca (left) meets with US chess master Herman Steiner (right) for an informal game of chess in Los Angeles, 1933
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Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz & Drew Barrymore (and Matt Damon) 25 years ago in 2000
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The inmate photo of Dan Tso-Se, a 14-year-old Navajo orphan, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Tso-Se killed four fellow tribe members, whom he said had treated him like a "slave", on a reservation in New Mexico when he was 13 in 1908 [1130 x 630].
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"Let's protect children from the priest's claws!" (USSR, 1962)
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Nat King Cole, poses with a fan, Gladys Knight, age 7 in 1951.
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Harry S. Truman and Cactus Jack
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[1778x1330] Lindbergh Tries Motor Earth Runs. Detroit Free Press, 25th Feb 1928.
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Volcanologist David A. Johnston, pictured 13 hours before he lost his life during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. He was the first to report the eruption from an observation post 6 miles away, transmitting "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" before being overtaken by the blast [943x1327]
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Hampton Lee, 24, Hugh Evans, 22, and Willis Evans, 18, are taken into custody for harassing a woman returning home from a party late at night, beating her male friend unconscious for trying to intervene, then kidnapping, robbing, and gang-raping her (South Carolina, September 22, 1940) [1000 x 772].
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"Save your children", Italian anti-communist poster issued by the Christian Democracy Party, c. 1952
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Salvation Army Red Shield comforts tent. New Guinea, WW2. Oil on canvas by WE Pidgeon.
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Singaporean PM Lee Kuan Yew visits the Pulau Senang, a prison island where inmates could move freely, work, and build their own society. The experiment ended in a complete disaster. After a failed uprising in which four guards were killed, 59 prisoners went on trial for murder, 1963 [830 x 464].
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"Now you're safe from terrorist attacks" (Chappate, 2006)
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[OC] Questions to the Heaven (from my worldbuilding project)
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«Just A Number» Political cartoon by Jeff Parker (Florida Today), 2008
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The last photo of SS officer Fritz Dietrich, 50. He had a leading role in the massacres of thousands by Germans and Latvian collaborators in Liepāja. Dietrich, whose role in this was not known at the time, was hanged for the murders of 7 American POWs in Germany (Landsberg Prison, 1948) [903 x 622].
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My brother and his wife on their wedding day, 1990s
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The view inside Fort Sam Houston as 64 soldiers of the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment are court-martialed for mutiny. After being repeatedly harassed and attacked by the police, the soldiers had snapped. A total of 156 soldiers marched on Houston, where they killed 16 people, 1917 [1200 x 804].
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A man in Afghanistan is condemned to death for being a supporter of the communist regime. He would later be shot and beheaded 1980. [1600x1060]
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Johnny Clem, the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga” who shot and killed a Confederate officer and rose through the ranks to Major General at the time of his retirement in 1916. [1080x1365]
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Since you all loved my dad in LA 1974, here he is in Latvia, c. 1910
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19-year-old Brigitte Bardot during the Cannes Film Festival, 1953
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Leftist Iranian students calling for armed resistance against the Pahlavi government. USA, 1970s [1224x856]
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Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen covered in paint by a protester over Iraq invasion involvement. (2003) [1240x826]
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This is America… Keep it Free! (ca 1944). The Greatest Generation had the right idea! [1256x1810]
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RAF reconnaissance photo taken on May 21st, 1941, at 26,000 feet, showing the 823.6-foot (251 m) German battleship Bismarck, revealing its position and leading to its sinking six days later [1284X1151].
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Launch of the James Caird lifeboat from Elephant Island on April 24th 1916. Ernest Shackleton and five others would journey over 800 miles to rescue the 22 trapped on the Antarctic island[500X363].
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An Afghan communist revolutionary wearing traditional clothing and holding an AK-47 in Kabul, 1984. [1080x1440]
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Michelle Pfeiffer, 1980's. Drop dead gorgeous but what a career.....Scarface, The Witches of Eastwick, Married to the Mob, the best Catwoman ever in Batman Returns, Dangerous Minds, Hairspray, on and on.
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This is Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov, the Soviet ethnographer who deciphered the Mayan writing system, 1980.
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