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A rare photograph of Nikola Tesla's funeral, 12th January 1943. His casket is covered with flags of USA and Yugoslavia.
Posted 9 hours ago
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Grammie. She was a midwife, a mother of 11 and a grandmother to many. She was the matriarch and not to be crossed. She is still a family legend
Posted 16 hours ago
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Soviet Armenian illustration (1957) showing a mob in the US blocking a young black student's path to school.
Posted 18 hours ago
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Japanese kamikaze pilots pose with a puppy before their final suicide mission in Okinawa, 1945
Posted 18 hours ago
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US soldiers interrogate an elderly Vietnamese man and two children in My Lai. Photographed by Ronald Haeberle, who did not see what ultimately happened to them. March 16, 1968.
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Elizabeth Plane (1859-1914), daughter of a Cornish copper miner, settled in northern Queensland, widowed four times before she was 40, mother of three; photographed here in 1886
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Assassination of Socialist leader Inejirō Asanuma by anti-communist Otoya Yamaguchi, Japan, 1960
Posted 2 days ago
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More than a 100,000 Iranian women take to the street to protest against the newly formed Islamic government’s compulsory hijab ruling, 8 March 1979
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"Can Black People and White People work together to defeat our common enemy?"—Antisemetic poster, 2023
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John Wayne as Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror," filmed in the Utah desert, 137 miles from the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Wayne and many cast/crew died of various cancers years later. St. George, Utah. 1954.
Posted 2 days ago
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