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2 men look with bright smiles at a sleeping baby, New York, 1940.

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"I'm going to finish you off soon". Pornographic Japanese propaganda poster from Russo - Japanese war, 1904/1905. NSFW!

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U.S. Marines in Hue during the Tet Offensive, 1968

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I’m sorry I’m not a thirst trap, but this sub needs more actual old school cool. And there’s nothing cooler than my tracksuit. I think about 1983 or so.

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A Palestinian child flashes peace signs at an Israeli-manned bulldozer demolishing a house in Jenin's Old City during an operation by the Israeli army in the northern West Bank town on 25 October 2002.

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My mother (left) and her best friend, Dolores (right) c. 1953

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American photographer and model Elizabeth Miller in Hitler's bathtub, 1945.

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Adolf Hitler at age 35 after his release from Landsberg Prison. Weimar Republic, December 20, 1924. This photograph was taken shortly after Hitler finished dictating "Mein Kampf" to Rudolf Hess.

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By Nick Anderson, 2023.

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Crips Autochrome shot of George V with his son, the Prince of Wales, 14 of March 1914

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Caesar, my grandmother’s dog, greeting me at the door. 1957

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A photograph taken in Egypt by renowned photographer Hossam Diab of a man sentenced to execution in 1985. His only request before it was carried out: “a cup of tea."

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