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

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High school graduation day, 1979

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Captain Herbert Sobel, of Band of Brothers infamy, with his infant son, ca 1946

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A court clerk examines the cabin where Raymond Ellison, 37, and his 12-year-old wife, Imogene Sims, lived. Ellison, who married the girl to avoid statutory rape charges, had just been arrested for murdering her. The photo was publicized by the Louisville Courier Journal, Kentucky, 1948 .

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Conan Taken By John Candy At Harvard (1984)

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Teenage crisis, then and now (International Herald Tribune, 2014)

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my great grand uncle harry and his frenchie pose for a portrait / c 1920

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Rare photo of US President Woodrow Wilson in which his famously bad teeth can be seen, 1910's (1355x1080)

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An anti-Communist Romanian civilian aims his PSL rifle during the Romanian Revolution, Bucharest, December 24, 1989.

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My brother's sunny adorableness in the early 1950s. Even now, with mid-stage Alzheimer's, he remains cheerful and smiles like sunshine.

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Photograph taken during Leonid Kulik’s expedition (1928)to the site of the Tunguska Event, which occurred twenty years earlier on June 30th, 1908, likely an explosion caused by a mid-air burst of an asteroid, the most significant impact event in recorded history.

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"Please!" - Japanese leaflet intended for American soldiers, circa 1943.

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Mugshots of six defendants in the Mount Rennie rape case. Twenty men and teenage boys had gang raped a 16-year-old servant girl in New South Wales. These six were among the 10 to be found guilty. It was the only gang rape in the region at the time to result in any convictions, 1886 .

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