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Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.

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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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My late Mother and Father - 1968

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Assassination of Socialist leader Inejirō Asanuma by anti-communist Otoya Yamaguchi, Japan, 1960

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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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My 23rd birthday was a surprise. 1976

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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.

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Ser Oswald Mosley on the ground after getting punched by an anti-fascist protestor, Ridley Road, London, 1962

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Malawi mother with her chubby baby, 21 of July 1968

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My mother was beautiful. 1960

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A 41-year-old Winston Churchill commanding the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1916, after resigning from the government .

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