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"TikTok, A Tool of Chinese Spying?" Cartoon by Patrick Chappatte, Circa 2023.

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A Nazi Einsatzgruppen aims his rifle at a mother desperately shielding her child. Ivanhorod, occupied Ukraine, 1942.

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1966 Kentucky. When the Kids lined up for the Bookmobile

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Antonio Rivera looks at his lawyer at a hearing. He and his ex-wife Merla Walpole were accused of murdering their daughter, who disappeared at age 3 in 1965. Nine months after the two were arrested, their daughter was found alive and adopted by a new family (San Bernardino, 1975) .

Posted 4 days ago
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A young boy playing the banjo with his dog, circa 1920

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My grandmother and her brother the first week she was home from being adopted - 1957

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American soldiers in one of 40 carriages, containing a total of over 2.000 dead. (Dachau, 26th of April 1945) (440x327)

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In this 2023 poster by the Estonian newspaper Postimees, the smaller pig says ' why are we not allowed in ' and the bigger pig says ' fascist, russophobe '.

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The father of Xi Jinping, leader of China, driven in a humiliation parade during the Cultural Revolution with a sign that says "Xi Zhongxun, traitor to the Party" on September 1967

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Gunnar Kaasen, a Norwegian musher and his lead dog Balto, who delivered diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, saving the city from an epidemic, 1925

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Chubby baby laughs as mom bathes them on a bowl, 1960s.

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On this day 39 years ago, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer commits suicide during a live, televised press conference (Harrisburg, PA - January 22, 1987)

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