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A Polish resistance fighter checks her hair after a German air raid during the Warsaw Uprising, September 1944

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Anti-Thatcher Labour Party advertisement, 1980s

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A mother grieves by the body of her son who was shot and killed in the Tiananmen crackdown. June 4th, 1989.

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In 1970, troops from the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed people at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others

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My grandma and grandpa in 1976

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Unbroken seal of Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s Tomb. 1922.

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Moroccan police commissioner Mustapha Tabet hangs his head at his trial. With the protection of other cops, Tabet kidnapped, assaulted, and raped at least 518 women and girls, albeit he might've had 1,200+ victims. It remains the worst police corruption scandal in the country, 1993 .

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"Far-right parties, lobbying for the interests of Russia in Europe". Early 2010s map warning about Russian influence in Europe.

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Cat eating corn, photo by Allan Grant in Life Magazine, 1951

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Jean-Claude Van Damme demonstrates his signature kicks in a suit, 1994.

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U.S. soldiers posing with the bodies of Moro men, women & children following the Bud Dajo massacre on Jolo Island, Philippines, March 7, 1906

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A jailhouse photo of D.B. Napier, taken after his arrest for raping and murdering a teenage girl. After the police saved him from a lynch mob, a shaken Napier confessed that he'd once helped lynch someone nearly 20 years earlier. The confession made national headlines, Louisiana, 1934 .

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