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Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini. The inventor of Sherlock Holmes and the escape artist became friends in 1920. A rift developed between them because the credulous Doyle believed in supernatural phenomena that Houdini knew to be clever trickery.
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Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguay's 35-year CIA-backed dictator, days after his overthrow, 1989. A pedophile who murdered & tortured thousands of dissidents & harbored Nazis like Josef Mengele, he ruled longer than any Latin-American dictator beside Castro. He died at 94 years old a free man. (2048x1930)
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Pastor Milciades Coronel, chief of Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner's "investigations department," stands over a body while holding a machine gun, 1970's. Implicated in the "archives of terror," he was Stroessner's most feared enforcer & killed & tortured 100's or 1000's of people (1248x717)
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An Apache warrior with a rare Evans repeating rifle. The Evans could hold up to 34 rounds in its magazine, unprecedented for its time (Arizona Territory, USA, 1880) .
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''The Thinker'' Auguste Rodin in his studio in 1905, photo by Albert Harlingue.
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Yakov Melkumov was an Armenian who fought for the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. In 1922, he would command the unit which killed Enver Pasha, who was one of the main architects of the Armenian genocide .
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1976: Chrysler Corporation offers $2,000 to anyone at the Chicago Auto Show who could break the composure of living mannequin Nancy del Corral.
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Four musicians standing on the corner of 23rd Street and 8th Avenue in New York City. 1975.
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A whale carcass explodes on a beach in Florence, Oregon, on Nov 12, 1970. It had been packed with dynamite in an effort to dispose of it. Chunks flew as far as 800 feet, and one piece crushed a car nearby.
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Roman Polanski kneeling at his door where 'Pig' is written in his wife's blood (Sharon Tate) after the Manson family murders, 1969.
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The futility of the Great War. A German soldier in a WW1 commonwealth cemetery on the Somme, June 1940
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