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

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An australian soldier shooting a submachine gun at portraits of kim il-sung and stalin in 1950

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My great grandma walking with my grandma in downtown Houston, Tx 1945

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A 1925 photograph that might show the last wild Barbary lion before its extinction. It was taken by the French photographer Marcelin Flandrin while he was aboard a flight on the Casablanca-Dakar air route

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Japanese soldiers bury Chinese POWs alive. Sino-Japanese War, 1937.

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Video taken on the Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios Hollywood in 1997

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My dad in 1979 age 12

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“The graveyard of empires” (2021)

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Colonel Sanders visiting his cousin Sim Reed. Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, 1970s.

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A picture taken of my German grandfather during WW1 - 1915 - posing with a British dud shell during the battle of loos (1131 x 1553)

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Colorful Flames… Popular Science Magazine, 1951

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Children sit on a whites-only bench along the waterfront in Durban, South Africa. May 27, 1960.

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This photograph was taken by Lawrence Beutler in 1930. Two black men were hanged after being falsely accused of raping a white girl.

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