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An interracial couple walking hand in hand through Midtown Manhattan in the 1960s

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The corpse of Mussolini (second from left) next to Petacci (middle) and other executed fascists in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, 1945.

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Pygmy family posing with European man for scale. Pygmy derives from Greek pygmaios, a term for dwarf from Greek mythology. There are hypotheses to explain the short stature such as lesser availability of protein-rich food sources or lower average levels of ultraviolet light. 1921.

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Mom and baby taking a nap 1970s

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"Profilo Continuo" (1933, Bertelli) A Continuous Profile of the face of Mussolini

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President George W. Bush lying in front of the White House with his Scottish Terrier Barney. (2001)

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Rodney Dangerfield, ca. 1974

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James Cameron, 88, stands in a gallery of Black Holocaust Museum, which he founded, in Milwaukee. When Cameron was 16, he was nearly lynched in Indiana. The noose was around his neck, but he was spared when someone in the mob vouched for him at the last moment (Wisconsin, 2003) .

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Bright color at this wedding in South Carolina, 1956.

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German POWs from the North Africa Campaign arriving at Camp Aliceville, Alabama, US to work as farmers during World War II (1943)

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Iraqis watching the trial of Saddam Hussein in a cafe along the river Tigres. (2004)

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"Keep the world clean" - Anti-Israel poster from a demonstration by the Norwiegian student of the Warsaw Medical University, 2023

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