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May 31, 1921, a white supremacist mob systematically destroyed Tulsa, Oklahoma’s black affluent neighborhood of Greenwood aka “Black Wall Street.” Killing an estimated 300, they also burned 35 city blocks to the ground and left 10,000 homeless.
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Tenzing Norgay poses atop Mount Everest after he and Edmund Hillary became the first confirmed climbers to reach the summit on May 29, 1953. Photograph taken by Hillary.
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My teenaged great-grandmother (on the left) talking to one of her father's many mistresses
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A woman protests against the wearing of bikinis, in Daytona Beach, Florida, 1981
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Parents give very warm smiles as they pose with their children, Denmark, July of 1893. Mother looks really happy with her baby.
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A young boy in northern Afghanistan photographed wearing a shirt with the Confederate flag, 2002 (1079x1502)
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"Hang around girls, we like it!", US poster encouraging the female workers to take fewer and shorter breaks, implying that slacking off serves the enemy, c. 1942
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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay complete the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953.
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Grandmother recently passed. I stumbled upon her and my grandfather's wedding photo from 1965.
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