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

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A man on the beach is fined for indecent clothing, Heemskerk, Netherlands, 1931

Posted 4 hours ago
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Syrian president Bashar al assad with Egyptian leader hosni mubarak during his trip to Egypt, both would be overthrown because of the Arab spring (though bashar would take much longer) March 20th 2002 (1024×711)

Posted 12 hours ago
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My great grandma Evelyn in 1938, age 21

Posted 15 hours ago
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A dead GI and US troops under sniper fire on the Nibelungen Bridge in Worms, Germany. 28 March 1945.

Posted 19 hours ago
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South Korean anti-terrorist commandos sliding down ropes with guns drawn during a training exercise in the main Olympic Stadium ahead of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Posted a day ago
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Pope Francis reaches out (KAL, 2014)

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Father holds her daughter who sits on his leg for their portrait, circa 1870s. tintype.

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Jakobus Onnen, a 35 year old former teacher poses for a photo before executing an unknown Jewish man, simply known as ‘The Last Jew in Vinnitsa’. 28 July 1941. Onnen was finally identified after 84 years, having been killed in combat in 1943.

Posted a day ago
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Mom swears she was "Mod" and it's "Completely different than emo!" 1987

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Members of the French Special Forces taking Iraqi soldiers prisoner during the 1991 Gulf War, better known as Operation Desert Storm.

Posted 2 days ago
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This man just hit the bullseye. A camera automatically takes a picture when someone performs this feat. Location is the Rockaway Playland Shooting Gallery sometime in the early 1950s. I wonder if he was an infantry man in WW2.

Posted 2 days ago
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A young pro Taylor fighter, mortally wounded, does not immediately realize the seriousness of his condition because he is under the influence of drugs, Liberia, July 2003.

Posted 2 days ago