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My mom’s RN graduation photo from the 70’s, recently retired after 47 years.

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Stalin in Bailov Prison, Baku, Azerbaijan, March 1910, (1547x931)

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My 2nd great-grandma Judy and her adoring breakfast companion, c. 1910.

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Mussolini's Anti Nazi speech in Bari, Italy, 6 September 1934

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Freshly excavated Terracotta Army soldiers with traces of their original paint, 1974 .

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Happy GI on his way to pass out candy rations to his buddies, ca 1944.

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A wedding the 70s

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Yukio Ozaki, 94-year-old Japanese politician, after learning of his first electoral defeat in his 26th election, 1953

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In the Finnish war of 1808-09, during the siege of Revolax, the attacking Finns were witnessed "cheering in happiness" as they stormed the last bits of the Russian occupied town. (1280x710)

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Pentagon memo (Mikhaela Reid, 2004)

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My sister and I in Italy, 1977. It looks like a Caravaggio painting, but we were just waiting for dinner.

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My parents on their wedding day July 10th, 1965.

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