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Daguerreotype of a blind man wearing tinted glasses, holding a cat. George Eastman Museum c.1850
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'My executioners are still free!' — Soviet poster (1965) showing a woman rolling up her sleeve to show her 'Ostarbeiter' tattoo.
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After being repatriated by the British military, Axis soldiers of Yugoslav citizenship await their summary executions in a partisan transit camp. Bodies were hidden in caves and abandoned mines, until mass graves were exhumated in the 1990s-2000s. (May 1945)(2145x1509)
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Crown Prince Leka Zogu I of Albania, son of King Zog with his wife Princess Susan, 1970's. Leka was forced to go into exile by the Albanian communists when he was just a few days old, but returned in the 1990's amidst the decline of communism. He was noted for his enormous 6'9 stature (2531x2227)
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1950’s generational photo of my uncle, grandfather, great grandfather and great great grandfather.
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One of the only known photos of Subha Talfah, the mother of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taken sometime in the 1950's or 60's. Subha unsuccessfully tried to abort Saddam before he was born. (594x424)
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"The Mongol storm will be broken in Berlin" | Goebbels Last speech under Soviet Artillery fire (21 April 1945)
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Percy Fawcett, who disappeared 100 years ago today and was never seen again whilst on an expedition into the Amazon Rainforest looking for a lost city he referred to as “Z”. May 1925,.
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Country store on a dirt road in Gordonton, North Carolina photographed by Dorothea Lange on a Sunday afternoon in July 1939.
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John F. Schrank after his arrest. On October 14, 1912, Schrank shot former president and Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt outside a Milwaukee hotel. .
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29 May 1953. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mount Everest.
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