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Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.

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Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt, being carried away after a car bomb explosion near his house in Beirut aimed at his life on January 12, 1982.

Posted 4 hours ago
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Viet Cong operative Nguyen Van Lem collapses immediately after being shot and killed by ARVN General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. His execution was captured on camera and seen by millions worldwide. February 1, 1968. Cholon District, Saigon.

Posted 11 hours ago
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Marilyn Monroe's first husband was James "Jim" Dougherty, a 21-year-old factory worker whom she married on June 19, 1942, at age 16 to avoid returning to an orphanage. They were neighbors in California, and the marriage lasted four years before they divorced in 1946.

Posted 15 hours ago
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Terrible beach accident 1950s

Posted 17 hours ago
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Serial killer Carroll Cole, 47, prepares to light a cigarette as he talks with a reporter three days before his execution (Nevada State Prison, 1985) .

Posted 19 hours ago
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Patrick Chappatte editorial cartoon on the growing surveillance state, 2020

Posted 21 hours ago
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"No German customers wanted here until Hitler returns Czechoslovakia!" - a poster placed in the window of a Somerville restaurant by its Czech owner. USA, March 18, 1939.

Posted a day ago
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Grigory Berman finds the bodies of his wife and children, killed by Nazis from Einsatzgruppe D. Crimea, January 1942.

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Love is love

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No one wants to remember the horrors of war. Poland, Warsaw, 1946.

Posted 2 days ago
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A traffic jam at the Brandenburg Gate between East and West Berlin on the first Saturday after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 11, 1989.

Posted 2 days ago
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2 men look with bright smiles at a sleeping baby, New York, 1940.

Posted 2 days ago