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Young Girl Stops Knitting to Pet Her Cat in 1930

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Aftermath of the Capaci Bombing, Sicily May 1992. Mob detonated bomb killing anti mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife, 3 bodyguards and wounded 23 people

Posted 5 hours ago
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The Dean Scream, credited with ending Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, January 19th 2004 .

Posted 14 hours ago
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My brother Anthony, aged 3, in July 1961

Posted 18 hours ago
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Jamie Lee Curtis and Jennifer Love Hewitt 1998

Posted 19 hours ago
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A Swedish woman, whose mother had survived Auschwitz, hitting a neo-Nazi with her handbag. (1985)

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"Story of the Jews" Illustration on Chinese social media platform Pipixia (2022)

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Danish troops patrol the Iraqi southern town of Al-Garma, 15 km north of the southern city of Basra, Iraq 2003(670x415)

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Young lady fliying a kite in Central park, New York, 1970s.

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Joseph Taborsky hugs his mother after his exoneration from death row. He spent 4 years on death row for a 1950 murder before his conviction was overturned. Just over a year later, Taborsky murdered 5 people and confessed to the 1950 murder. He was executed in 1960 (Connecticut, 1955) .

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"The Scourged Back," depicts an escaped enslaved man named Peter, also known as Gordon, showing the severe keloid scarring on his back resulting from brutal whippings. (1863)

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My baby and me 1980.

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