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April 27, 1975: After the Indiana Pacers used their team mascot to put a 'hex' on the Denver Nuggets, the Nuggets respond by hiring a witch to put a spell on the Pacers. The Nuggets lost both games.
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General Winfield Scott, often called "the grand old man of the army," in 1862. In his 53 year career, spanning from before the war of 1812 to the start of the civil war, Scott spent 47 years as a general, more than any officer in US history. He unsuccessfully ran for president many times (1148x800)
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Qusay Hussein, son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, fires a revolver in the air during a social event. 1980's-1990's. (719x820)
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Probably the last photo ever taken of labor organizer and Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa, July 24, 1975. Hoffa permanently disappeared less than a week later, presumably murdered and disposed of by the American mafia for his unwillingness to back down from union affairs. (2049x2604)
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Corrupt labor union official & Mafia hitman Frank Sheeran in a bar in the 1970's. Sheeran, who was 6'4, 250 lbs, and an admitted war criminal, is thought by many to have murdered Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, (among dozens of others) & was the subject of the 2019 film "The Irishman." (3267x2279)
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Children trashing the home of African-American residents, after they were expelled from the neighborhood during Chicago's Red Summer riot of 1919
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Ed Clarity’s prize-winning photo of a woman about to snatch a child from water whit a net at Rockaway Beach on Aug. 24, 1958.
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The Cervi family. The brothers and their father became renowned for their activities in the organized resistance to Italian fascism. On 28 Dec 1943, all seven Cervi brothers, taken prisoner, were shot by the fascists in the shooting range of Reggio Emilia (Reggio Emilia, Italy 1930s)
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USS Kearsarge (BB-5) illuminated with electric lights, while visiting Portsmough, England in July 1903.
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Fantasy art legend, Frank Frazetta and daughter, Heidi strike a pose for his feature in Moviegoer Magazine. November 1983
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