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My baby and me 1980.
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"You Are Fake News", Pro-Trump Painting by Jon McNaughton, Circa September 2020.
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Me as a boy in 1965 with newly completed model airplane minutes before destroying it on maiden flight. Also me 56 years later with surprise Christmas gift from co-worker of identical replica.
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A photo of Ora Ralph Thomas, an Illinois sheriff's deputy during the Prohibition Era. In 1925, Thomas, who also led an anti-Klan paramilitary, was assassinated by three Ku Klux Klan members. He shot and killed all three of his own murderers before collapsing from his injuries .
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Segregationists taunting 6-year-old Ruby Bridges with a black doll in a coffin as she enters an all white school in New Orleans. One woman continuously threatened to poison her.
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A rare photograph of Nikola Tesla's funeral, 12th January 1943. His casket is covered with flags of USA and Yugoslavia.
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Grammie. She was a midwife, a mother of 11 and a grandmother to many. She was the matriarch and not to be crossed. She is still a family legend
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Soviet Armenian illustration (1957) showing a mob in the US blocking a young black student's path to school.
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Japanese kamikaze pilots pose with a puppy before their final suicide mission in Okinawa, 1945
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US soldiers interrogate an elderly Vietnamese man and two children in My Lai. Photographed by Ronald Haeberle, who did not see what ultimately happened to them. March 16, 1968.
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Elizabeth Plane (1859-1914), daughter of a Cornish copper miner, settled in northern Queensland, widowed four times before she was 40, mother of three; photographed here in 1886
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