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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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19-year-old Brigitte Bardot during the Cannes Film Festival, 1953
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Leftist Iranian students calling for armed resistance against the Pahlavi government. USA, 1970s [1224x856]
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Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen covered in paint by a protester over Iraq invasion involvement. (2003) [1240x826]
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This is America… Keep it Free! (ca 1944). The Greatest Generation had the right idea! [1256x1810]
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RAF reconnaissance photo taken on May 21st, 1941, at 26,000 feet, showing the 823.6-foot (251 m) German battleship Bismarck, revealing its position and leading to its sinking six days later [1284X1151].
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Launch of the James Caird lifeboat from Elephant Island on April 24th 1916. Ernest Shackleton and five others would journey over 800 miles to rescue the 22 trapped on the Antarctic island[500X363].
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An Afghan communist revolutionary wearing traditional clothing and holding an AK-47 in Kabul, 1984. [1080x1440]
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Michelle Pfeiffer, 1980's. Drop dead gorgeous but what a career.....Scarface, The Witches of Eastwick, Married to the Mob, the best Catwoman ever in Batman Returns, Dangerous Minds, Hairspray, on and on.
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This is Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov, the Soviet ethnographer who deciphered the Mayan writing system, 1980.
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The last photo of former German Army colonel Erich Hammon, taken an hour before his execution by firing squad. A British military tribunal had convicted Hammon of murdering a recently liberated Russian slave laborer in Flensburg on V.E. Day, Allied-occupied Germany, May 30, 1945 [446 x 700].
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Iraqi Insurgents operating in the mid 2000s against US forces. [1200x800]
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Hermann Castle, also known as the Narva castle or Narva fortress, is a medieval castle in the city of Narva, in northeastern Estonia. The castle was established around 1256, when the area was part of the Danish Realm.
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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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Volcanologist David A. Johnston, pictured 13 hours before he lost his life during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. He was the first to report the eruption from an observation post 6 miles away, transmitting "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" before being overtaken by the blast [943x1327]
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Hampton Lee, 24, Hugh Evans, 22, and Willis Evans, 18, are taken into custody for harassing a woman returning home from a party late at night, beating her male friend unconscious for trying to intervene, then kidnapping, robbing, and gang-raping her (South Carolina, September 22, 1940) [1000 x 772].
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"Save your children", Italian anti-communist poster issued by the Christian Democracy Party, c. 1952
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Salvation Army Red Shield comforts tent. New Guinea, WW2. Oil on canvas by WE Pidgeon.
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Singaporean PM Lee Kuan Yew visits the Pulau Senang, a prison island where inmates could move freely, work, and build their own society. The experiment ended in a complete disaster. After a failed uprising in which four guards were killed, 59 prisoners went on trial for murder, 1963 [830 x 464].
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"Now you're safe from terrorist attacks" (Chappate, 2006)
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[OC] Questions to the Heaven (from my worldbuilding project)
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«Just A Number» Political cartoon by Jeff Parker (Florida Today), 2008
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Mikhail Gorbachev hands files to Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski detailing the deaths of 21,000 Polish soldiers executed by the NKVD in 1940 - the first time the Soviet government admitted responsibility for the Katyn Massacre, 13 April 1990 [1000x656]
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The Eight Nazi Saboteurs of Operation Pastorius caught on American soil during World War II. Washington DC, 1942 [1020x650]
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Men waiting to be executed during communist purge in Indonesia 1965.
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch in the 1870s. The word Masochist is derived from his name. The term was used in lifetime and he did not approve. [650x961]
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