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Political cartoon by David Horsey, Los Angeles Times, Circa 2017.
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Pacific War veteran Howard Auld, 25, sits between two cops shortly after his arrest for murder. He'd went after a waitress after dancing with her at a V-J Day party. When she spurned his advances, Auld beat her unconscious, raped her, and left her to die in a cistern (New Jersey, 1945) .
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Captured around 5:00 pm, nine hours after the Hiroshima detonation, a Japanese wounded police man, his head wrapped in bandages, is seen distributing rice ration certificates to atomic bomb survivors. August 6, 1945.
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28 January 1986. Onlookers witnessing the Challenger explosion shortly after take off.
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People scaring sparrows during China’s Four Pests Campaign (1958–1962), which targeted rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows—and later contributed to ecological imbalance and famine.
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Hitler looking at a model of Linz in the Reich Chancellery Basement in Berlin, February 9 1945
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My mother laughing as she tosses her wedding bouquet to her sister, 1947
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British fleet in the Maltese Grand Harbour illuminated on the occasion of Hirohito's visit in 1921
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Daliborka Stojšić, Miss Yugoslavia 1968 - posing with a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F 'Fishbed' fighter-interceptor aircraft from the Yugoslav Air Force, c. 1968.
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