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Graduation day 1971

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Australian troops walking over duckboards in No Man's Land during the Third Battle of Ypres. The site is now a theme park. (1917)

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Three girls strolling past two British soldiers keeping watch for snipers after a spate of rioting in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (1981)

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White supremacist terrorist Richard Snell, 64, speaks at his clemency hearing. He predicted there'd be a bombing on his execution day. That day, the Oklahoma City bombing happened. Snell, who had hours left to live, reportedly chuckled as he watched TV reports on it (Arkansas, 1995) .

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My mom at 17 with a bolt action rifle. 1941.

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Judy Garland holding her daughter Liza Minnelli, 1947

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Final photograph of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, taken one day before his death on April 11, 1945.

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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) .

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A young boy playing the banjo with his dog, circa 1920

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