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My mom (age 15) stretching the phone cord for some privacy. St. Louis Park, MN, circa 1959.
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On this day in 1864, the first Union POWs arrived at Andersonville- a newly constructed stockade in Georgia that would soon become one of the most infamous prisons in US history. Almost 13,000 POWs died here from disease, poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding, or exposure.
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The 'Hasanlu lovers' died around 800 B.C. and were discovered in 1972 in iran They died in what seems to be an embrace or kiss and remained that way for 2800 years
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A young Bosnian woman holding an AK-47. Smokes a cigarette as she waits for a funeral service in Sarajevo (1992)
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106 year-old William Casby holding his great-great-granddaughter. He was born into slavery in Danville, Virginia in 1857, worked as a longshoreman, and lived to be 113, photograph by Richard Avedon, 1963
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Ann Hodges was the only human being in recorded history to be hit by a meteorite 1954 in Sylacauga
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The Soviet Union flag is lowered and the Russian flag is raised over the Kremlin. December 25, 1991.
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Exhaust U.S. Army nurse Amy Stuart, 5th MASH unit in Saudí Arabia naps on a cot while hugging a teddy bear sent by her family during Operation Desert Storm feb, 22, (1991).
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"Divorce Leads Children to the Worst Places" Iranian Cartoon by Behrouz Firoozi, 2013
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