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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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English mixed couple in the 1950s with their little child

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"We'll murder you whores". Anti-abortion and anti-LGBT sticker, Poland 2020

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Young Girl Stops Knitting to Pet Her Cat in 1930

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Aftermath of the Capaci Bombing, Sicily May 1992. Mob detonated bomb killing anti mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife, 3 bodyguards and wounded 23 people

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The Dean Scream, credited with ending Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, January 19th 2004 .

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My brother Anthony, aged 3, in July 1961

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Jamie Lee Curtis and Jennifer Love Hewitt 1998

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A Swedish woman, whose mother had survived Auschwitz, hitting a neo-Nazi with her handbag. (1985)

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