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A mugshot of 11-year-old gangster Robert Sandifer. It is the only known photo of Sandifer, who killed a 14-year-old schoolgirl while shooting at rival gangsters, prior to his own murder by two teenage fellow gangsters. His short and violent life got national attention (Chicago, 1994) .
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Young lady posing for her double shot, Junction city, Kansas, 1917. glass negative
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Coffins of Communards following the suppression of the Paris Commune, 1871.
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January 31, 1990: The first McDonald's in the USSR opened in Moscow. Its opening was a real sensation: to get in, you had to wait in line for several hours.
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A man on the beach is fined for indecent clothing, Heemskerk, Netherlands, 1931
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Syrian president Bashar al assad with Egyptian leader hosni mubarak during his trip to Egypt, both would be overthrown because of the Arab spring (though bashar would take much longer) March 20th 2002 (1024×711)
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A dead GI and US troops under sniper fire on the Nibelungen Bridge in Worms, Germany. 28 March 1945.
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