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Letting her grow in 1968

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German single-engine Messerschmidt Bf-109 light fighter with its "desert" camouflage, over Libya, 1942.

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A ton-up girl fixing her Triumph, 1950s

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My grandma and grandpa circa 1946

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"What can you buy children for the cost of 1 liter of vodka?" USSR 1930

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Japanese researchers attached to Unit 731 engaged in a “Plague Prevention” action in China(November 1940). Unit 731 was a secret research unit that engaged in human experimentation and is believed to have killed between 200 and 300 thousand in its nine years of existence.

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A photo of President Abraham Lincoln conferring with one of his generals near the Antietam battlefield on October 4th, 1862; behind him on the ground is one of the 39 rebel flags captured in that battle.

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Mom heading off to college

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Chinese chairman Mao Zedong swimming in the Yangtze river in Wuhan, China, 1966

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A Soviet junior political officer (Politruk) urges Soviet troops forward against German positions (12 July 1942)

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Political cartoon (by Tom Toles) of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, 2009

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Wife (girlfriend at the time) and I at the Limelight in Atlanta circa 1982

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