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"Far-right parties, lobbying for the interests of Russia in Europe". Early 2010s map warning about Russian influence in Europe.

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Cat eating corn, photo by Allan Grant in Life Magazine, 1951

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Jean-Claude Van Damme demonstrates his signature kicks in a suit, 1994.

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U.S. soldiers posing with the bodies of Moro men, women & children following the Bud Dajo massacre on Jolo Island, Philippines, March 7, 1906

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A jailhouse photo of D.B. Napier, taken after his arrest for raping and murdering a teenage girl. After the police saved him from a lynch mob, a shaken Napier confessed that he'd once helped lynch someone nearly 20 years earlier. The confession made national headlines, Louisiana, 1934 .

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Traveling knife grinder. He'd carry a traveling grinding wheel from town to town and offered to sharpen knives and other tools for a fee. Circa 1895.

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“The First Day of War” Soviet civilians in Moscow listen to the radio announcement that Germany has invaded the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941 (1590x1200)

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East German map of West German Ambassadors with previous Nazi German ties (1962)

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East German border guards gaze into West Berlin on November 11, 1989, two days after the Berlin Wall officially came down, ending twenty-eight years of separation.

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My grandparents (right) and her parents, who joined them on their honeymoon

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Cathy Guisewite and her cartoon Cathy, 1982.

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A South Vietnamese woman crying over a plastic bag containing the remains of her husband, he was found in a mass grave of non-combatants murdered by Communist forces during the Tet Offensive. His body was found a year later, in April 1969. Photo taken by Larry Barrows.

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