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Jamie Lee Curtis and Jennifer Love Hewitt 1998
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Peggy Seale Harris never learned what happened to her husband Billie, whose plane was shot down over Les Ventes, France in 1944. In 2005 she was shocked to learn the town had been memorializing him and his sacrifice for over 60 years. [640x822]
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US Justice By John Jonik , Published August 25, 2017
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Wife and Children of an Unemployed Coal Miner
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A French caricature mocking western famine tourists in India during the period of the British Raj, 1899
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'Bashar Assad: "Gee . . . I'm not sure if I'm up to filling my father's shoes!"' (2000)
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80 years ago today, USS Enterprise, "the fightingest ship in the navy", sails up the Hudson River prior to Navy Day celebrations in New York. 17 October 1945. [1024 × 744]
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A court clerk examines the cabin where Raymond Ellison, 37, and his 12-year-old wife, Imogene Sims, lived. Ellison, who married the girl to avoid statutory rape charges, had just been arrested for murdering her. The photo was publicized by the Louisville Courier Journal, Kentucky, 1948 [1104 x 804].
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"Hang Mandela" propaganda made by the student organisation of the British Conservative Party during the 1980s
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US President Dwight Eisenhower meeting with civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King Jr. after signing the 1960 civil rights act into law. (3000x2336)
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Actor Reggie Nadler, who played the Vampire Kurt Barlow in "Salem’s Lot", with effects mask from the movie.
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An anti-Communist Romanian civilian aims his PSL rifle during the Romanian Revolution, Bucharest, December 24, 1989. [2048 × 1328]
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Batman by Daniel Warren Johnson
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Unit 731 being destroyed in 1945
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Photograph taken during Leonid Kulik’s expedition (1928)to the site of the Tunguska Event, which occurred twenty years earlier on June 30th, 1908, likely an explosion caused by a mid-air burst of an asteroid, the most significant impact event in recorded history[1160X848].
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Donald Trump visits a reception on a business trip to Moscow, Russia. Photo by Igor Tabakov. 05-Nov-1996 [1037x818]
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A dapper looking undercover detective disarms a man with a razor who attacked protest marchers during an Irish solidarity parade, Glasgow, Scotland, 1971
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Caricature from the Soviet satirical magazine Krokodil (1979)
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A teenage boy giving flowers to princess diana with the help of his friends, 1989 [1200x900]
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Captain Herbert Sobel, of Band of Brothers infamy, with his infant son, ca 1946 [960x692]
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"What progress since 1914! Finally, the Germans are self-sufficient in warmaking!" A cartoon satirising political violence from the German weekly "Simplicissmus," August 1932
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The body of Dom Pedro II, the last Emperor of Brazil, who died in exile 2 years after being overthrown, 1891. Pedro's reign lasted for almost 6 decades, beginning when he was only 6 years old. He was a leading intellectual of his time, regarded by some as a savant, & spoke 14 languages (2250x2588)
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Rare photo of US President Woodrow Wilson in which his famously bad teeth can be seen, 1910's (1355x1080)
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Jake LaMotta (1922-2017), the "Raging Bull", in 2012. Well-known for his six fights with Sugar Ray Robinson and swarmer style which necessitated he absorb extreme punishment, he was also a self confessed rapist and attempted murderer with turbulent mob associations (1200 x 800).
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Mugshots of six defendants in the Mount Rennie rape case. Twenty men and teenage boys had gang raped a 16-year-old servant girl in New South Wales. These six were among the 10 to be found guilty. It was the only gang rape in the region at the time to result in any convictions, 1886 [1705 x 881].
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Irakly Moiseevich Toidze (1902–1985) — "Reckoning!" (1968)
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On April 3rd, 1985, a boy battling cystic fibrosis had his dream come true when legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan came and visited him in the hospital
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Serbian mobster, warlord, & paramilitary commander Željko Ražnatović, aka "Arkan" holding a baby tiger, 1991. Ražnatović's unit, the Serb Volunteer Guard, was notorious for its war crimes & he was one of the most feared men in Serbia. He escaped from jail twice & was assassinated in 2000 (3677x2500)
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