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A security guard walking down US Highway 101 where there are towering stacks of hollow iron floats from which the iron antisubmarine nets were suspended to protect the US ports during the last war, by Hank Walker, 1953.

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Carol waiting for her date, 1952

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On this day (1978) Microsoft took its first staff photo

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The Maiden, a child found frozen on the volcano Llullaillaco in Argentina, The photograph was taken shortly after her discovery in 1995

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“The Rape of Europa”, a painting by Ilya Glazunov, 2012

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Darrell Night talks to the press after the convictions of two police officers who left him to die. He exposed the decades-long practice of "starlight tours", in which police drove indigenous people to the outskirts of cities and left them to die in sub-zero temperatures (Canada, 2001) .

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6 sisters and 1 photobombing dad

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The body of Leander Shaw after his lynching. Roughly a dozen people scaled the rear walls of the jail, took Shaw from his cell, dragged him to a plaza, and hanged him from an electric pole. Shaw was then shot over 500 times (Florida, 1908) .

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Disneyland in 1955!

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A photo of Congressman William A. Hall. Originally from Portland, Maine, he gained notoriety for presiding at the 1855 trial of Celia, a 19-year-old slave who killed her master, who'd been raping her for years. Celia was executed after Hall ruled that she had no right to defend herself .

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Competing posters in the New York City subway, circa 2012.

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Pakistani dictator Yahya Khan dying under house arrest, late 1970's. in 1971 Khan presided over the Bangladeshi genocide, in which the Pakistani military murdered & raped hundreds of thousands of its own citizens. After years of extremely heavy drinking, Khan had a stroke & died in 1980 (1300x852)

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A security guard walking down US Highway 101 where there are towering stacks of hollow iron floats from which the iron antisubmarine nets were suspended to protect the US ports during the last war, by Hank Walker, 1953.

Carol waiting for her date, 1952

On this day (1978) Microsoft took its first staff photo

The Maiden, a child found frozen on the volcano Llullaillaco in Argentina, The photograph was taken shortly after her discovery in 1995

“The Rape of Europa”, a painting by Ilya Glazunov, 2012

Darrell Night talks to the press after the convictions of two police officers who left him to die. He exposed the decades-long practice of "starlight tours", in which police drove indigenous people to the outskirts of cities and left them to die in sub-zero temperatures (Canada, 2001) .

6 sisters and 1 photobombing dad

The body of Leander Shaw after his lynching. Roughly a dozen people scaled the rear walls of the jail, took Shaw from his cell, dragged him to a plaza, and hanged him from an electric pole. Shaw was then shot over 500 times (Florida, 1908) .

Disneyland in 1955!

A photo of Congressman William A. Hall. Originally from Portland, Maine, he gained notoriety for presiding at the 1855 trial of Celia, a 19-year-old slave who killed her master, who'd been raping her for years. Celia was executed after Hall ruled that she had no right to defend herself .

Competing posters in the New York City subway, circa 2012.

Pakistani dictator Yahya Khan dying under house arrest, late 1970's. in 1971 Khan presided over the Bangladeshi genocide, in which the Pakistani military murdered & raped hundreds of thousands of its own citizens. After years of extremely heavy drinking, Khan had a stroke & died in 1980 (1300x852)