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A woman paying for her groceries with a check, 1970s.
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Portugal is not a small country! A 1950s postcard comparing Portugal to the USA.
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Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov. Left: 1980 (declared KIA). Right: 2013 (found living as a healer in Herat). He had forgotten the Russian language entirely.
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The 'Casual Ward' trap: Homeless men detained in a London workhouse, forced to chop 448 lbs of wood to pay for their night's sleep (c. 1900).
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Nicoleta Nicolescu, the leader of the Iron Guard's female wing, leads a salute for other Romanian women at a summer camp. Nicolescu would later be detained as a threat to national security. She was tortured for months for information, and then burned alive in a furnace (Romania, 1935) .
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This is Katherine McHale Slaughterback, otherwise known as Rattlesnake Kate. She fought off 140 rattlesnakes in 1925 using just three bullets and a “No Hunting” sign. (1024x601)
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"New paradise for children, China and Japan will forever be close." Poster depicting a Chinese mother and child welcoming Japanese troops to occupied Beijing (c. 1937)
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Aerial photo of Tel Aviv and Jaffa taken by the Luftwaffe in 1941 during preparations for a possible invasion
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