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Guarded by 400 troops of the Missouri National Guard, John Henry Riney, a young black man charged with raping a white woman, is escorted to his trial (Arkansas, 1941) .

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My parents some months before they married, in 1981.

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How Conservatives become Instant Liberals (Don Wright, 2004)

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French Renault FT-17 light tank which was captured by the Soviets during the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1920, afterwards donated by the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Afghanistan – photo shows U.S. soldiers with the tank, c. 2005.

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Rick Steves: "Here I am, heading off to Europe the day after high school graduation in 1973 β€” with a budget of $3 a day, a ten-week Eurail pass in my pocket, and the biggest backpack I could find, jam-packed. I came home with no money, a malnourished body, and an enduring love of Europe."

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German refugees cross a destroyed bridge. Elbe River, Germany, May 1, 1945.

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Iraqi prisoner of war comforting his 4-year-old son in Najaf, Iraq March 31, 2003

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Little girl stares towards the hands of a woman preparing the polio vaccine, 1955.

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Field marshal Bernard Montgomery walking with decorated Soviet Marshals in front of the Brandenburg Gate, shortly after the Battle of Berlin. (1945)

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"Out of the Ruins" September 11 and the Rise of Mass Surveillance, 2006

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In 1920 in England, Mary Ann Bevan entered the β€œ Ugliest Woman in the World ” contest after developing acromegaly and losing her husband, doing it simply to put food on the table for her kids

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Father posing with his 2 childrens and dog, circa 1880s

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