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David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (Israels first two prime ministers) during their law education in Istanbul University 1912 [960×639]
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Lois Long (a columnist for "New Yorker" and flapper) getting a shocked look from a staff member of the late Victorian era, photograph taken by Edward Steichen (1921) [516x800]
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A US Air Force Douglas A-1E Skyraider drops a white phosphorus bomb on Viet Cong positions in South Vietnam in 1966. [1600×1153]
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A British Mark IV tank with combat experience at Cambrai (WW1), on display in England, 1950s [1920x1080]
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A Polish woman holding a photo of her killed husband at the opening of a Katyn Massacre Memorial in London, 1976 (459x640)
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In November 1961, the promising young ethnographer Michael Rockefeller vanished along the southern coast of New Guinea. [1536x1012]
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Young Custer: 1865 by Mathew Brady
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Ronald Reagan posing with oddly casual clothing while working at his ranch, 1984 (685x1024)
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A cotton sharecropper with his family at their home in Hale County, Alabama, 1935 [1600x1255]
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1940 A girl sitting in the wreckage of her bombed-out home
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Lynda Carter and her mom, Juanita Córdova, in 1972
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A photo of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins with his mother. In 1989, Hawkins was murdered by a mob of as many as 30 white youths who mistakenly thought he was dating a local white girl. Hawkins was one of three black people to be murdered by racist white mobs in New York in the 1980s [1049 x 700].
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Miami 1982: My grandfather thought this was a hilarious response to mother’s questions about how well I was being supervised by my grandparents over the summer. My mother was not amused.
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Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Bainbridge with Coyote counter-drone interceptor launcher installed on the aft superstructure, July 27, 2025. [5642x3761]
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1939. "Oklahoman, .Oregon." Photo by Dorothea Lange
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Duffus castle, Scotland
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A German student taking part in a racial education class, Nazi Germany, 1943 (1600x1594)
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Actress Tanya Roberts - Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1984)
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August 17th 1945, Soekarno declares the Indonesian independency. This would mark the start of the war of Independece against the Netherlands till 1949 (980×621)
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Samuel Sheinbein, an Israeli-American citizen who in 1997 killed teenager Alfredo Enrique Tello, Jr. in Maryland. Sheinbein fled to Israel, which refused to extradite him to the U.S. Sheinbein was killed in 2014 in an Israeli prison [1280x720]
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The crew of a Soviet IS-2 heavy tank looks at a column of German prisoners. Berlin, May 1945
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Queen Elizabeth II moments before Marcus Sarjeant fires six blank shots at her, 1981 (640x490)
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Romanian anti-American cartoon published during the Korean War (1950) showing MacArthur as a plane dropping bombs out of his mouth onto Koreans.
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Mayor of Foča, Hamid Muftić, who was boiled alive in a brandy cauldron by Chetniks in December 1941 and hanged his skeleton on the Džaferbeg Mosque [871 x 1179]
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The Sultana steamboat, the day before it sunk. The Sultana was transporting 2000 freed union prisoners when its boilers exploded killing 1100. Photographed April 26th, 1865. [1200x900]
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80 years ago today, members of the White House Press Corps rush to telephones after Truman announced Japan's surrender - August 14, 1945 [990x1000]
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This is one of the few SFW examples of Alfred Cheney Johnston’s portraits of Ziegfeld Follies showgirls from the 1920s. The quality and sheer amount of images of these ladies that were discovered after his death is atonishing. (606x766)
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Alabama eatery where a family orders ice cream from the "colored" side of the counter. (Gordon Parks, 1956) [800x796]
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Six year old Robin Arrington, daughter of a Miami Southern Christian Leadership Conference attorney, leans on Dr. Martin Luther King's shoulder as Dr. King holds a press conference, April 11, 1966, in Miami. [2000 × 1527]
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F-35 lands for the first time on JS Kaga. THEY CALL IT A DESTROYER HAHA WE SHOULD MENTION THAT IN EVERY POST TO BE CLEVER AND FUNNY!!! LOLOLOLOL [2000x1333]
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