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Models on the set of Queen's "Bicycle Race" music video. When the bike rental company found out about it, they demanded that the band buy all the used saddles. 1978

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Smiling in defiance of evil, Salomea Kostrubała was 14 when taken to Auschwitz (1942). She remained there for 2 years until a 1944 transfer to KL Natzweilter, where from she was liberated. She was a survivor.

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U.S. Marines land on the National Mall to disperse anti-war protests in Washington, D.C. May 3, 1971

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Matt Wuerker (2015)

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Vladimir Putin at the Age of 5 with Maria Ivanova. Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Juli 1958

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Grandmother and her father, 1885, Atlantic City boardwalk

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My grandfather aged 31 in Saudi Arabia, 1970

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A friend helps a 15 year old boy shoot up heroin on the roof of an abandoned building, The Bronx New York - 1983

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Jasper County Assistant District Attorney Pat Hardy displays the chain used by three white men, two of whom were known Neo-Nazis, to drag James Byrd Jr., a black man, to his death. The lynching of Byrd remains one of the most infamous hate crimes in modern American history, Texas, 1999 .

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“Water Splash” Kobe, Japan, 1951

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"ARE WE NEXT?" USA, 1965

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Two girls “horsemaning” in the 1920s

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