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The face of a fallen empire, Nuremberg 1946
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Man laughs as he is chased by a lady with a stick to jam his pennyfarthing, 1900. Glass negative shot with some blurr.
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In 1978, Bob Dylan wanted something different and fired all his backup singers and half the band, including singer songwriter Katey Sagal before she moved into acting
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An ARVN officer kicks a suspected Viet Cong captive in the face, photographed during a counterinsurgency operation. South Vietnam, October 1965.
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Journalist Vladimir Herzog killed in his cell by the military dictatorship of Brazil and framed as suicide, São Paulo, 1975
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Nose art of B-25H Mitchell bomber "Eatin' Kitty" of the 12th Bomb Group, 82nd Bomb Squadron, ca 1944. The original version of this plane's name was considered to be inappropriate by the higher command and was ordered to be painted out and replaced with "Kitty"
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"What's so funny, monsieur? I'm only trying to find my way." A 1964 cartoon predicting that American soldiers would suffer the same fate as their predecessors, the French colonial army in Indochina.
Posted 9 days ago
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