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Polish boy sitting in the ruins of Warsaw, September 1939

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My grandmother in loaf mode. Port Republic, Maryland c. 1920

Posted 6 hours ago
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A group of 1,000 people gather to look at the body of Frank McManus, a 25-year-old white man, after his lynching. McManus was kidnapped from his cell and hanged from tree by an angry mob after his arrest for kidnapping and raping Mina Spears, a 4-year-old white girl (Minnesota, 1882) .

Posted 12 hours ago
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Nazi collaborator Feodor Fedorenko, 70, enters a federal court in Miami as he fights to keep his U.S. citizenship and avoid extradition to the USSR. Fedorenko, a Ukrainian conscript in the Red Army, defected to the Germans during the war and was a guard at Treblinka (Florida, 1978) .

Posted 19 hours ago
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Björk at Age 11, Circa 1977

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My great grandma+sister, circa 1930s

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Lisa Benson (2016)

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Miner in his home in the city of Durham – after working 10 hours straight - photograph was taken by the British photographer Bill Brandt, c. 1937.

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In 1863 during the American Civil War in Virginia, Jacob Miller was shot in the head. Everyone thought he was dead, but he regained consciousness a few hours later and went on to live another 54 years

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My Dad visiting his grandad in his final days, he wanted to see the dog - my favourite family photo.

Posted 2 days ago
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Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.

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A West Berliner reaching over the border to kick an East German police officer. (1986)

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