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Extending gloved hands skyward in racial protest, U.S. athletes Smith and Carlos stare downward during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City on Oct. 16, 1968. [1100x1585]
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The American battleship USS Pennsylvania shells Japanese fortifications on the island of Guam.[1571 × 1654]
https://redd.it/1m3tjqo
In the wake of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, the French army brought in bulldozer to help bury the enormous mass of dead bodies. There were between 12,000 to 15,000 people dying each day. [1600x907]
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Natalie Portman in high school in 1999
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in 1991 Bernie Sanders delivered a speech to an empty U.S congress, advising against military intervention in the Gulf War.
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The Devil’s Den, Wiltshire
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KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders in front of the Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, 1970's. (2700x1827)
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Working Lunch: 1902Dayton, Ohio, circa 1902
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Saddam Hussein and his half-brother at their trial, 2004-2005. [1080x1333]
https://redd.it/1m0wbro
Château de Peyrelade 🏰 Rivière-sur-Tarn, France 🏰 [07.15]
https://redd.it/1m0fvqk
Raquel Welch's interview with Dick Cavett, 1970s
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Widely considered the photo that changed the face of AIDS: A father comforts his son, David Kirby, on his deathbed in Ohio. Published in LIFE magazine, November 1990. Photo by Therese Frare. [2560x1729]
https://redd.it/1m00gpl
Rare Photo of Marilyn Monroe's First Wedding at Age 16 (1942)
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Vladimir Lenin's last photo. He had had three strokes at this point and was completely mute, 1923 [1308x1614]
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Eltz Castle in Germany was first mentioned in the 12th century. The same family inhabits it for 800 years now.
https://redd.it/1m441fu
Dead American soldiers on the beach of Tarawa, November 1943. [1484x1200]
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Former Nazi concentration camp guard Michael Kolnhofer points a revolver at reporters and TV cameramen who want to interview him about the denaturalization proceedings just initiated against him. He was gunned down by the police after a brief shootout, Kansas City, Kansas, 1996 [832 x 642].
https://redd.it/1m3e3q9
The King George V class battleship HMS Anson in the Pacific, 1945. [1,190 x 421]
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Dr. John Britton shows his .357 Magnum revolver, which he carried for protection while working at an abortion clinic in Pensacola. The photo was taken on July 28, 1994 - just one day before his death. [ 640 x 640 ]
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Members of an oil workers' union display a banner with the message "Boil Hitler in Texas Oil" circa 1941/1942. [713x508]
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The Buzludzha Monument in Bulgaria is one of the most striking abandoned structures in the world. Built in 1981 as a communist headquarters, this futuristic relic now stands as a haunting yet mesmerizing reminder of a bygone era.
https://redd.it/1m2177n
A rare photo of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung showing a tumor on his neck. Photographers were forbidden to photograph the right side of his face 1980s. [600x602]
https://redd.it/1m1ou7t
Depiction of the Battle of Seonghwan during the First Sino Japanese War, July 1894, by Mizuno Toshikata
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My dad on his first day at NASA, also happens to be his birthday! (1986)
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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein praying to Meccah at dusk outside the city of Samarra, 1998. Saddam's regime became increasingly Islamic throughout the 1990's. (1578x1043)
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'Mussolini is always right' — Entrance of Italy's autarky exhibition, held in Rome in 1938.
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A poor rural family standing at attention for RFK's funeral train, June 8, 1968 [1080 x 861 ]
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Burg Thurant, 🏰 Alken, Germany 🏰 [07.14]
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