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A photo of Abdul Wali, an Afghan farmer. In 2003, he was falsely accused of being a terrorist. Hoping to clear his name, he turned turned himself in to the Americans. A CIA contractor would brutally torture Wali to death over the course of 3 days, beating him until he begged for death [596 x 420].

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A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India [976x549]

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Vo Thi Thang smiling after being sentenced to 20 years hard labour in a prison camp by the South Vietnamese govt. After being sentenced she reportedly smiled at the judge and said 20 years? Your government won't last that long. - 1968 - 821x881

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Queen Elizabeth II in her robes on the occasion of her coronation in June 1953 [1600x1600]

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In 1973, Marlon Brando rejected his Oscar for The Godfather to allow Sacheen Littlefeather to protest Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans. [1657 x 2486]

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A father looking for his two missing sons that went missing during the Kosovo war in 1999.[1242x816]

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CIA agent Felix Rodriguez (left) and Bolivian soldiers pose with Che Guevara moments before his execution. Bolivia, 9 October 1967. [1513 x 1034]

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Actor and martial arts star Jackie Chan at the benefit concert in Hong Kong, in support of Tiananmen Square protesters - 1989 [640x463]

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Indigenous children forced to pray to god in a residential school ran by the Canadian government and Catholic Church between 1930 and 1970, unknown location [1000 x 783]

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Statue of Liberty towering over Paris just before it was disassembled and shipped to New York, 1886. [1242x1466]

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The Undertaker looks down at medical staff checking on Mankind after he fell, unscripted, through the top of Hell in a Cell into the ring 16ft below. June 28, 1998 [485x614]

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A crowd of about 4000 Nazi sympathizers, some with their children, protest outside Landsberg Prison, demanding amnesty for the hundreds of Nazi war criminals being held there. When Jewish people counter-protested, the crowd chanted Nazi-era slogans and attacked them, West Germany, 1951 [700 x 394].

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A Jewish child shows her friends a dandelion she found in the grass while waiting outside the gas chambers. Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944 [601x449]

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At 4:31 AM, an unauthorized photo taken of Stalin inside of the Kremlin shows the very moment he was informed that Germany had began their invasion of the Soviet Union. It was taken by Komsomolskaya Pravda, editor in chief. He was ordered to destroy it, but instead saved it. June 22, 1941.[720x1003]

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Remember that photo of the construction workers having lunch on the unfinished Empire State Building? Well here's the photographer Charles Ebbets taking that photo. 9/20/1932 [1024 - 1024]

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Tokyo residents mourning Hachiko. He would regularly meet his owner, Professor Ueno, at Shibuya Station after he returned from work. Sadly, Ueno died on May 21, 1925 & never returned. However, Hachiko would return to the station every day for 9 years, waiting for him to come back, 1935 (1109x896)

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NYC protest, July 7, 1941 [750x433]

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A man takes a selfie using a stick of wood to activate the camera, 1957 [960x891]

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Mohawk warrior attacks Canadian soldiers during Oka crisis July-Sep 1990 which began when the Canadian government approved the seizure of Mohawk land for a private golf course - A 14 yr old Mohawk teen was bayoneted in the chest and almost died. Canada took the land in the end. [790x480]

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Babies left to sleep outside, enforcing immune sistem, Moscow 1958 [750 x 768]

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1976 Photo from the restaurant Windows on the World, which sat atop New York City's World Trade Center's north tower. (Photo by Ezra Stoller) [200X1333]

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Woman cutting her birthday cake in Iran 1973, 5 years before the Islamic Revolution [1242x1574]

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A photo of Mbaye Diagne, a UN peacekeeper who disobeyed his orders to stand down during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Acting entirely on his own initiative, he embarked on rescue missions. He is credited with singlehandedly saving the lives of as many as 1000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus [1024 x 746].

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A group of frontiersmen with an advertisement. United States, Montana, 1901. [1932 x 1440]

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A student protester gives the V for victory sign in front of Chinese soldiers of the PLA. Tiananmen square, 1 June 1989. Photo taken by Peter Charlesworth. [1600 x 1072]

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Indian soldiers burying dead Pakistani soldiers according to Islamic rituals after Pakistan refused to accept their bodies, Kargil war, 1999. [1280x850]

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British soldiers after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, 1945 [1200 x 803]

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Children in front of world’s largest log cabin in Portland, Oregon, USA 1938. Built In 1905 burned down In 1964 [700 x 1014]

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Dr. Erich Salomon faked a broken arm so he could hide a camera in his cast to photograph the US Supreme Court - 1932 [1170x809]

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Anne Frank, with her sister Margot at Zandvoort Beach, 1940. (700x863)

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The Procrastinators Club of America protesting against Former President James Madison and the War of 1812. Philadelphia, 9 March 1966. [1280 x 949]

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A French boy introduces himself to Indian soldiers who had just arrived in France to fight alongside French and British forces, Marseilles, 30th September 1914. [Colorization] [1755x1227]

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What is now the fully developed Las Vegas strip, 1955. [494 x 492]

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A man browses for books in the old Public library of Cincinnati. The building was demolished in 1955. Today an office building and a parking lot stand where it used to be. [750 × 750]

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A French women welcomes an American soldier two days after liberation. Strasbourg, France, 22 November 1944. [1024 x 853]

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Segregationists harass 6 year old Ruby Bridges, creating a doll of her in a coffin due to her going into an all white school. Louisiana, 1960 [1600x2102)

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Benjamin Ferencz was the last surviving prosecutor from the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. In 1947, he became the chief prosecutor in what was called the biggest murder trial in history. He spent his entire life fighting for justice for the victims of war crimes. He died this week [1199 x 674].

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Jewish-Nazi collaborator Ans van Dijk stands trial for treason. During the war, she baited fellow Jews out of hiding and got them arrested by the Gestapo. Dijk, who was paid for every Jew she caught, sold out at least 145 people, including her own brother, Amsterdam, 1947 [804 x 1000].

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George Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, listening to Malcolm X speak in a Nation of Islam Meeting (June 25, 1961) [300x601]

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Coal miner waiting to get into the communal shower at the end of his shift, taken in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1958. by photographer Max Scheler. [592x840]

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The Hasanlu lovers died around 800 B.C. and were discovered in 1972. They died in what seems to be an embrace or kiss, and remained that way for 2800 years. [400x647]

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112 year-old Teimruz Vanacha (left), veteran of WWI and the Russian Civil War, with his son Ivan, a veteran of WWII, in 1980 [750 x 926].

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A Filipino-American family posing for a family portrait, Philippines 1912 [328x599]

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Former president Andrew Jackson aged 78, one of the few existing photographs of him, taken in 1845, The year he died. [681x932]

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Mobsters hide their faces at Al Capone's trial 1931. [700 x 525]

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German student Kalistros Thielecke has his mugshot taken after murdering his mother, whom he stabbed 17 times. He later joined the Dirlewanger Brigade, an SS unit composed of convicted violent criminals. They committed atrocities so brutal that even other SS units were horrified, 1930 [1462 x 941].

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George Harrison of the Beatles taking a selfie at the Taj Mahal in 1966 [615x409]

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Temporary NYPD headquarters at a Burger King near the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001. [800x1220]

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[Colorized] J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein, 1947 [678x750]

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Germans testing a Messerschmitt Bf 109 E3, 1940 [2565x1938]

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Hillary Clinton Playing Game Boy in 1993 (640x610)

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Actress Veronica Lake with her hair twisted in a drill press, demonstrating potential dangers to women in factories during WWII, November 9, 1943. [1247x1006]

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British schoolboys holding discarded syringes, 1970s. We used to play with these in school all the time because they were like mini water pistols (without the needle). [1800x1202]

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife minutes before assassination that would lead to WW1, 1914 [Colorized] [1280 x 960]

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Hitler rehearsing a speech in front of a mirror, taken by his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffman, 1925. [1436x1600]

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Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic from Nirvana at Kurt Cobain's funeral. Seattle, Washington (1994) [1024 x 674]

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Cetshwayo, King of the Zulu who defeated the British at the Battle of Isandlwana, 1878 [900 x 1058]

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A German-Jewish WW1 veteran wears his Iron Cross while a Nazi soldier stands in front of his shop for intimidation - 1933. [427x615]

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20,000 Americans attend a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 20, 1939 [1200x1073]

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“They buried him among the kings because he had done good toward God and toward his house.” The coffin of the Uknown Warrior before his internment in Westminster Abbey, a memorial to all British and Commonwealth troops killed during WW1 with no known grave. 11th November 1920 [570x800]

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Circus performer Jimmy Armstrong having a smoke break. 1958. [736x1084]

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1989 Plymouth Voyager 3 Concept. A miniature tractor-trailer. [960×960]

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Anti NAZI demonstration in Berlin 1932 [520x402]

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A Jewish mother tries to shield her child from the bullets of a Nazi death Squad (Einsatzgruppe) during the Kiev massacres. Never Forget. 1942 [1024x706]

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Indian POWs used as a live target practice by Japanese Soldiers during WW2 [360x712]

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The world's last commercial ocean-going sailing ship - The Pamir - rounding Cape Horn, 1949. [483 x 640]

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High school teacher John T. Scopes is brought to trial in Dayton, Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution, which was prohibited under state law. July 10, 1925 [2000x1320]

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A man begging for his wife’s forgiveness inside Divorce Court. Chicago, ca. 1948. [693x934]

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My grandfather. 1933. In a cornfield he planted that was destroyed by locusts. 1290x1913

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Joe Biden withdraws from the 1988 presidential election in late 1987 [2592x1824]

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28-year-old Marcy Borders, who worked at the Bank of America located in the World Trade Center and survived its collapse, is photographed completely covered in dust. (September 11, 2001). Borders died from cancer on August 24, 2015. (Photo by Stan Honda). [511x767]

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Night fishing in Hawaii, 1948 [640 x 640]

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Mugshot of Bertha Boronda, the woman who was arrested for cutting off her husband’s penis with a razor in 1907. [1231x1549]

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A policeman in San Francisco scolds a man for not wearing a mask during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, 1918 [700x525]

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Man in pressure suit with a beaker of boiling water in a vacuum chamber simulating an altitude of 65,000 feet, Feb. 8, 1953 [850x1024]

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A hippie girl selling roadside flowers in Oklahoma, 1973. [538x799]

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John F. Kennedy campaigning Door-to-Door in West Virginia (1960) (640x793)

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A Dutch athlete receives a portrait of Adolf Hitler as a sports prize, presented by General Otto Schumann, commander of the Ordnungspolizei. The Hague, The Netherlands, 1941. [2600 × 3986]

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