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Grave of three German soldiers on the Havel River, Berlin, 1946.
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My gggg-great grandmother. Today is her 174th birthday. She died in 1912 from gangrene of the limb. I don’t know when exactly this photo was taken.
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Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt, being carried away after a car bomb explosion near his house in Beirut aimed at his life on January 12, 1982.
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Viet Cong operative Nguyen Van Lem collapses immediately after being shot and killed by ARVN General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. His execution was captured on camera and seen by millions worldwide. February 1, 1968. Cholon District, Saigon.
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Marilyn Monroe's first husband was James "Jim" Dougherty, a 21-year-old factory worker whom she married on June 19, 1942, at age 16 to avoid returning to an orphanage. They were neighbors in California, and the marriage lasted four years before they divorced in 1946.
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Serial killer Carroll Cole, 47, prepares to light a cigarette as he talks with a reporter three days before his execution (Nevada State Prison, 1985) .
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Patrick Chappatte editorial cartoon on the growing surveillance state, 2020
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"No German customers wanted here until Hitler returns Czechoslovakia!" - a poster placed in the window of a Somerville restaurant by its Czech owner. USA, March 18, 1939.
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Grigory Berman finds the bodies of his wife and children, killed by Nazis from Einsatzgruppe D. Crimea, January 1942.
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