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Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.

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Twins Celebrating Their 35th Birthday in 1967, Each Holding Their Newborn Daughters

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Mass graves at the edge of Grozny where men deposit the hundreds of unidentified bodies found in the city following the Russian invasion and bombardments of December and January 1994-1995.

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Two of the Wealthiest Merchants in 19th-Century Persia, Executed After Refusing to Renounce Their Faith. circa 1875

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An ACT up protester holding a sign depicting Donald Trump as Freddie Krueger, 1989

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'The Hyphenated American' (USA, 1899)

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My great grandmother in 1998 wearing her traditional Navajo clothing, with me sitting on her lap

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Christmas, 1980s

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1912 photograph of “Jerome” of Sandy Cove, a mysterious man who washed ashore in Nova Scotia in 1863, both legs amputated, and whose identity and origins were never discovered.

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March 22, 1989 (37 years today) Buffalo Sabres goalie Clint Malarchuk suffered a near fatal neck injury when a skate blade severed his jugular vein

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Teenage sisters Gertrude and Ursula Falke. Germany, 1906

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5-year-old after day’s work, was tired and refused to be photographed, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1911. Photo by Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee.

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An estimated one million people filled the streets of New York City on June 10, 1991 to celebrate the return of 24,000 U.S. troops from Operation “Desert Storm”. Nearly 700,000 U.S. troops were deployed to the Persian Gulf region as part of a multinational force to free Kuwait from Iraq.

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