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A photo taken of U.S. Army Private Werner Schmiedel, of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, at a stockade in Rome on December 10, 1944. Schmiedel was the leader of the "Lane Gang", a group of American and Canadian deserters who terrorized soldiers and civilians alike in war-torn Italy [530 x 594].
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Presidents Kennedy, Eisenhower, and Truman at Eleanor Roosevelt’s funeral. November 10, 1962. [650x510]
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Frank Sinatra hopping off of a helicopter, drink in hand. Photographed by Yul Brenner in 1964 [500x700]
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Frederick C. Branch, the first African American to be commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps, has his second lieutenant's bars pinned on by his wife. 10 November 1945 [2280 x 2933]
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Some of the 300 to 500 people who tried to lynch a black teenager charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. The lynching was foiled when Tennessee National Guard troops shot and stabbed dozens of the attackers, four of them fatally, after tear gas proved ineffective (Shelbyville, 1934) [2048 x 1542].
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Edward Prince of Wales, (future King Edward VII) (right) smoking with his brother-in-law, Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark (future King Frederick VIII of Denmark) (left), in January 1869 when they were both in their 20s. [1080x1292] [Colourised]
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Former NOPD officer Antoinette Frank is escorted out of the restaurant where she and her boyfriend murdered three people during a robbery. The jury had toured it during her trial. Frank had returned to the scene in her patrol car, pretending to be first responder (Louisiana, 1995) [656 x 500].
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Japanese propaganda picture taken with chinese Children in the Nanjing region. Circa 1937-1938.
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USS Essex (CV-9) repels kamikaze attacks near Okinawa, 11 April 1945
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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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Mathew McConaughey and his Date (1988)
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My Grandma and her friends 1940-50s
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August Sabbe (left) on the day of his attempted arrest and death on the bank of the Võhandu river, 28. September 1978 [502x305]
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1965 American Nazi Party Comic
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Supercentenarian Sarah Knauss, 118 years old, posing for a family photo, 1998.
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A young German fallschirmjäger captured by the US army, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, near Weywertz. Belgium, 15 January, 1945. [1066 X 1309] [colorized]
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1980's Behind the scenes of Ferris Bueller
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A handwritten note from Mahatma Gandhi to my great-great-grandfather
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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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