Fred Rogers performing a bedside solo show for 7-year old Beth Usher during her coma after undergoing surgery for Rasmussen’s encephalitis at the John Hopkins Childrens' Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. February 1987 [720 x 478]

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Princess Diana Losing An Argument to Her 7 Year Old Son.Around 1991, 920x800

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In 1969, when black Americans were still prevented from swimming alongside whites, Mr.Rogers decided to invite Officer Clemmons to join him and cool his feet in a pool, breaking a well-known color barrier. [865 x 974]

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A Romanian soldier giving a sign of victory after the 1989 revolution, having removed the communist insignia from his headwear. [1870x2800]

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The Man Who Refused To Salute Hitler. August Landmasser fell in love with a Jewish woman who, before they could marry, was sent to a concentration camp. Before he would be sent to a labor camp, this picture captured Landmasser in 1936 [948x635]

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Protester Guy Burmieux encounters his childhood friend, policeman Jean-Yvon Antignac, on April 6, 1972 [1280x899]

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San Francisco's iconic Cliff House, shortly before it was destroyed by fire in 1907 [1000x784].

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Two students hanging out in their college dorm room at the University of Illinois, 1910. [950x900]

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On November 12, 1928, the Banana Massacre occurred in Santa Marta, Colombia. Approximately 2,000 workers of the United Fruit Company were killed while demanding decent working conditions. [225 x 288]

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An Atlanta Boy’s High School basketball player shooting a free throw against Tech High School in 1921 [481 x 600].

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May 1922: 78-year-old Robert T. Lincoln (son of Abraham Lincoln) is helped up the steps at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. [1740x2048]

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Anita Bryant (Save Our Children leader) gets pied by a gay rights activist, Des Moines, Iowa, 14th October 1977 [1024x682]

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[Colorized] 34-year-old Homer Peel kisses his 12-year-old bride Geneva on the courthouse steps in Madisonville, Tennessee, June 25, 1937 [2307x2356]

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Flattening hills to build Seattle, 1905-1930. [1600x1165]

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Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek make a toast to celebrate the surrender of Japan in August 1945. It was the last time the leaders ever met [602 x 602].

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Nelson Mandela at a South African Communist Party rally. Soweto, 1990. [739x415]

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President George W. Bush aboard Air Force One after the 9/11 attacks, September 11, 2001 [1280x853]

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Miners in the Serra Pelada gold mines in Brazil, 1980s. [1069×1600].

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Shipping on the Suez Canal. Some time around 1880 (960x768)

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An undercover police officer on duty in the 78th Precinct in Brooklyn, New York. 1 July, 1969. [855x1200]

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King Island Eskimo woman and child, King Island, Alaska, between 1915 and 1925 [600×826]

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Buffalo Calf Road Woman is a Native American warrior who is credited with helping kill U.S. Army Colonel George Custer during the American Indian Wars in 1876. Custer was responsible for massacring Native American civilians and allowing his men to commit rape indigenous women [600 × 916].

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1919: On this day, crowds in London observe the very first 2 minute silence for those killed in the Great War. The men have removed their hats out of respect for the fallen. (Colorized) [1555X1289]

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Reporters who Exposed the Watergate Scandal watch President Nixon resign, 1974 [750x506]

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Father and son goofing off, 1910s. [4016×4016]

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Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler on a visit to the Dachau concentration camp with his 12 year old daughter Gudrun, Nazi Germany, 1941. [600x449]

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A young Barack Obama spending time on the beach with his grandfather. 1963 [570 x 675]

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Queen Elizabeth; the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and a bored Prince Charles watching the Coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II. Westminster Abbey, 1953. [1024x762]

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Mugshots of Children executed by the communist Khmer Rouge dictatorship at Tuol Sleng prison. Cambodia, 1975-79. [500x661]

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7'3'' jakob nacken (221 cm) the tallest nazi soldier ever chatting with 5'3'' (160 cm) canadian corporal bob roberts after surrendering to him near calais, france in september of 1944 (colorized by me) [1434x1976]

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Young German Soldier Crying After Being Captured by U.S. Forces in 1945 [964 x 863]

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Iranian women protest against an Islamic dress code for all female employees in government offices, 1980 [862x485]

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Wehrmacht officers surrendering to the Norwegian resistance May 1945 [720x473]

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Fidel Castro playing basketball against students during a visit to Krakow, Poland, 1972 [1502 x 2048]

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Former President Ronald Reagan doffs his baseball cap, exposing his partially shaved head before the applause of well wishers who saw him off at the airport in Rochester, Minn., Sept. 15, 1989 (845x1080)

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Pele and President Gerald Ford play with a soccer ball in the Rose Guard, White House, 1975 [791 x 1200]

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The Endurance ship being stuck in the Antarctic ice (forever), 1915, [1100x953]

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A man recording a concert in Poland 1980's. [1079x1617]

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Charles Thompson greets his new classmates at Public School No. 27 in September 1954, less than four months after the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional. Charles was the only African-American child in the school. Photo by Richard Stacks for the Baltimore Sun. [1200x926]

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Greenpeace tries to stop radioactive waste from being dumped in the ocean, 1982 [800x538]

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An unidentified white student slugs a hanging effigy of a black student outside of the Little Rock Central High School. This was taken after the school was forced to desegregate, a move which many locals vehemently opposed, Arkansas, U.S, 1957 (1242x881)

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The only surviving depiction of a Western POW being executed by the Japanese during WWII ca. 1943 [1514 x 1024]

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An East German soldier passing a flower through the Berlin Wall before it was torn down, 1989 [ 730 × 1110 ]

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A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, 1914/1915 [1024x796]

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The aftermath of the Tulsa massacre, 1921. [990 x 616]

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Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends a parade at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, wearing his original doughboy uniform that he used during the war. He is holding an American flag. It covered the casket of his son Clement, who was killed in the Korean War, 1982 [800x1202]

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Joe Biden taking oath as the youngest senator in 1972 from Delaware at the age of 30. Jan 1973, [766x431]

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Robert McGee, scalped as a child by Sioux Indians. 1890. [1494x1997]

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Russian writer Alexander Pushkin and French writer Alexandre Dumas. Each had a Black ancester who was a general in a European army. An old rumor claimed that Pushkin faked his 1837 death in a duel, moved to France, and became Dumas. [1200 x 696]

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Princeton sophomores after a brutal snowball fight, 1893. (777 x 1024)

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In the 1890s, the Congo state (controlled by Belgian settlers) allowed the companies to maneuver almost entirely freely, which resulted in various atrocities, including the amputation of hands as punishment for those who refused to collect rubber [400x560]

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Rarely did photographers make it to frontier families but when they did families wanted to show how well they were doing out West by stripping the house & pose for the camera. This family would like you to see their big melons are & a cow that appears to be able to climb your house! c1870s (600x800)

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Kmart employees watching moon landing - July 16, 1969 [640*402]

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The Statue of Liberty - Paris, France - 1886 (before it was transported to America) [574x894]

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A balloon apron is suspended to defend London from air attacks, 1915 [1600x1351]

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Willem Arondeus was an openly gay Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews. they managed to destroy 800,000 ID cards.[2140x3200](1921)

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Herbert Hoover with Adolf Hitler in a private meeting, 1938 (288x216)

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A death squad mercenary stops for a lunch break in El Salvador. The photographer said he bought the man a beer and “took three shots before he went ballistic”, 1980s [1177 x 1760].

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The consequences of landing on the wrong Aircraft Carrier, 1952 1024x731

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Church Council fathers with their secretaries leaving St Peters Basilica during the Second Vatican Council, 1962-1965

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Today is Martin Luther King's Birthday. Here he is in 1964. [Colorized] [5000x3333]

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Japanese serial rapist, serial killer, Navy veteran, and self-confessed war criminal Yoshio Kodaira, whose face is concealed with a straw hat, is escorted into court. In addition to killing several Japanese women, Kodaira said he committed various war crimes while in China, 1947 [1206 x 1414].

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Danish model Winnie Holman. Cannes, 1975 - by Helmut Newton. [700x1052]

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Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) working as a mechanic during WW2, 1943 [960x721]

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Charles Thompson being greeted by his new classmates, just 4 months earlier the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional. He was the only black child at the school. Sept 1954 (700x540)

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A mob pours sugar, ketchup and mustard over the heads of (from left) John Salter, Joan Trumpauer and Anne Moody during a sit-in demonstration at a Woolworth’s ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Jackson, Miss. - May 28, 1963. (Photo by Fred Blackwell/Associated Press) [1486x1234]

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A giant snowman measuring 17 feet made by two children in Aberdeen, Scotland 1963 [649x794]

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Chinese guerrilla fighter Cheng Benhua 成本華 smiling moment before execution by the Japanese, she was 24. (Late 1938) [502 x 806]

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[Colorized] A traffic cop fines a woman for wearing a bikini. Rimini, Italy, 1957 [1523x2048]

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44-year-old Mao Zedong in Yan'an, North-West China, 1937 [2030x2030]

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Polish border guard and his horse drink from the stream in Bieszczady Mountains while on patrol. Polish Border Guard still uses horses to traverse difficult mountainous or swampy terrain. This photo was used for recruitment purposes. Poland, 1980. [602x462]

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Testing prototype space suit intended for use in NASA's Apollo moon landing program, Mojave Desert, California 1962 [640x668]

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A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, 1914/1915. [1284x1284]

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A photo of Father Hans Schmidt, a Catholic priest who emigrated from Germany due to scandals. In 1913, he gained international notoriety after murdering a woman and drinking her blood. For this, he became the first and only Catholic priest to be executed in the United States [766 × 1024].

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Georgia cotton mill workers, 1909. Photo credit: Lewis Hine [900x688]

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Homosexual prisoners at the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, wearing pink triangles on their uniforms on December 19, 1938. [1400 × 788]

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7 Oct 1943, Ottla Kafka, beloved sister of author Franz Kafka, was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid [530 x 755]

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Anne Frank in front of Opekta, her father's company in Singel, Amsterdam in 1935. [1568 x 1899].

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Vladimir Putin at the Age of 5 with Maria Ivanova. Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Juli 1958 [940x580]

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Israeli soldier taking a glass of water from the Jordan river after The Six Day War, On his left arm is a serial number from the Holocaust. July 1967. [606x612]

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Tourists having tea and sunbathing at the top of the Great Pyramid, 1938 [960 x 826]

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A Japanese soldier wades into the sea off Cape Endaiadere, New Guinea, with a grenade against his head moments before it goes off, defying an Australian soldier calling on him to surrender, December 18, 1942 [401×425]

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Actress Marilyn Hare set out to kiss 10,000 soldiers in order to raise the morale of troops fighting in WWII. On her first day she kissed 733 men, 1942. by John Florea [800x633]

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The United States Board of Tea Experts assembled for the first time since 1942 to set up minimum standards for the eight to ten different types of tea that will be coming into the country for the following year, Feb. 17, 1947 [1280x1039]

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American soldiers on their way home from WW2, 1945 [960x1197]

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One of the many selfies that Emperor Nicholas II took throughout his life, (1868-1918). [736x551]

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A girl holds her mother's hand while running to school, protected by an RUC officer in riot gear, as protestors shouted, spat and threw things at them, during the Holy Cross Dispute in Northern Ireland, 2001 [787x466]

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[Colorized] French little girl with three American admirers. Normandy, France June 22, 1944 [1200x1669]

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Jimmy Carter working with his sons on his peanut farm 1960(1000X750)

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In this small town, Zhizdra, after the fights, I did not find anyone alive except this wounded cat - Eastern Front, 1943 [750x1127]

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President Regan and General Secretary Gorbachev, along with President-elect Bush. Governors Island, December 1988 [1500x1000]

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Anton Dostler, Nazi General moments before being executed for War Crimes. Aversa, Italy. 1 December, 1945. [1280x839]

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[1200x803] An enthusiast for Men's dress reform walking down the Strand in London. The MDRP (Men’s Dress Reform Party) was formed in the interwar years in Britain, 1930.

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A white mob, consisting of thousands of people, many of whom are hoping to participate in or witness a lynching, stands outside the courthouse as a black man stands trial for murdering a white girl. At least one person in the crowd was seen carrying a rope, Kentucky, 1920 [740 × 435].

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Vincas Juska, A Lithuanian book smuggler that transport language books into Lithuania proper circa late 1800s. [416x768]

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Albert Dryden at the moment he shot Harry Collinson. The murder was captured on camera, 1991. [976x549]

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The 1968 Democratic National Convention: A bleeding reporter interviews a bleeding activist during the anti-war demonstrations in Chicago, which were broken up by police and National Guard. (640x782)

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Eiffel Tower under construction, July 1888 [Colorized] [1080x783]

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The scene on the highway near Palermo after a bomb killed anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife, and three police escort agents on 23rd May 1992. The bombing was a terror attack by the Sicilian Mafia who placed 400 kg of explosives under the highway (Sicily, Italy 1992) [1100x715]

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The last photograph of Lenin was in May 1923, months before he died, with his doctor and his sister.[1440x1972]

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When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, flour mills of the 1930s started using flowered fabric for their sacks. (1939) [620x831]

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Anne Frank and her sister Margot at the beach, Zandvoort - August 1940 [640x971]

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Traditional Rwandan hairstyle (1923) [605x8650]

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Russia and the US signs a treaty where Ukraine is giving up their nuclear weapons in exchange for security assurances in 1994. Check out Game-changing history pod for more in the infowar going on [1200x630]

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This photograph was likely taken in Maine along some body of water, circa 1897. It was titled light just after sunset. You can see the guy on the left taking the photo with a shutter remote. From my glass negative collection. (800x640)

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Jewish prisoners after being liberated from a death train, 1945 [880 x 1056]

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Sleeping kitty, 1930. Photo by Alton Blackington. [522x680]

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Prague residents throwing Molotov cocktails at a Soviet tank in Prague, August 21, 1968. [1600x1448]

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Jewish-American soldiers conduct services in Schloss Rheydt, former residence of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, in Germany on March 18, 1945. [1600×1147]

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Maximilian I of Habsburg, last Emperor of Mexico, after being executed by republicans. His eyes were removed and replaced with the ones from a statue of the Virgin, his beard cut, replaced with a fake one, and sold as souvenir,1867. [868×1200]

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A Black U.S. Soldier Reads A Message Left By The Viet Cong During The Vietnam War, The Message Reads: U.S. Negro Armymen, You Are Committing The Same Ignominious Crimes In South Vietnam That The Kkk Clique Is Perpetrating Against Your Family At Home., 1970. (700 x 469)

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Grand Central Terminal, NYC, The sun can't shine through like that now due to the surrounding tall buildings. 1929. [1500x1716]

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“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve”- The U.S. Pacific fleet getting ready for battle during the Marshall Islands Campaign, 1944. [960x769]

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An anti-communist revolutionary holds a Molotov cocktail behind his back during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. [1052×1496]

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Russian conscript with his family before being deployed to the front, Karachev, Bryansk, Russia, 1943.[800x618]

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Glass worker carrying a tube of rolled glass at Pilkington Glass Ltd of St Helen's, Lancashire, 1918. photo by George P. Lewis [573x767]

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12 year old anti-child labor speaker, Iqbal Masih from Pakistan, who was forced into slave labor at a carpet facory at age 4, jubilates as he is introduced as one of five recipients to receive a Reebok Human Rights Award, Dec. 7, 1994, in Boston. He would be murdered 4 months later. [898x1165]

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Photo taken one millionth of a second, from two miles away, of US testing of a nuclear blast, 1945 [636x636]

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Family photograph of a Bulgarian Jewish woman wearing traditional clothing, Bulgaria, circa late 1800s [1000x1566]

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Marilyn Monroe performing on stage in front of thousands of troops during Korean War. Korea. 1954.[1242x979]

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Shaggy, the reggae singer known for his hit song It Wasn't Me, photographed holding a football while serving in the U.S. Marines, 1991. [800 x 534]

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Martin Luther King Jr. removing a burnt cross from his front yard in 1960 (681x606)

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Rail commuters wearing white protective masks, one with the additional message “wear a mask or go to jail,” during the 1918 influenza pandemic in California. [1762 x 1176]

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German war criminals laugh at a translation mistake during the Nuremberg Trials, 1945. (962 x 709)

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Students dance in Tiananmen Square before the arrival of the Chinese military, June 4th 1989 [499x767]

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Jaques Biederer, the first photographer in history specializing in erotic photos. This photo was taken in Paris in 1928. [2869X1976]

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The 9 Kings of Europe gather for the first and only time for a photograph at the funeral of King Edward VII in London. May 20th, 1910 [1500 x 1094]

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Young boys harassing the Horace Baker family, the first African American family to move into the all white Delmar Village neighborhood of Folcroft, Pennsylvania - Aug. 30, 1963. [657x900]

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