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Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.

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me in my playpen 80 years ago

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Winston Churchill firing a Thompson submachine gun during a military demonstration in the United Kingdom (1940)

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U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Quentin C. Aanenson takes a mirror selfie with his girlfriend Jacqueline Greer before leaving for Europe, c. March 1944

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Me, ‘78

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Wounded French soldiers participating in drills inside the Grand Palais to prepare to return to active duty. (1916)

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Anti Zionism Jewish poster "Where we live, there is our country". General Jewish Labour Bund election 1917 kiev ukrain

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Hitchhiker, 1970s

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15 year old Mary Vincent in 1978, spirit unbroken after she was brutally tortured by a Serial Killer who cut off both her arms and threw her off a 30 ft. Cliff. She packed her stumps with mud, climbed the cliff back up and walked for miles naked towards the nearest hospital.

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Little girls pose for their portrait, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1900.

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Hiroshima, Japan, 1945: This shadow that seems almost drawn on the white of five steps, tells the last moments of a person. All that remains is the shadow caused by the flash of the atomic bomb that August 6th.

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US soldiers taking pictures with an 2800 years old statue in the Iraq national museum. Iraq ,Baghdad 2004

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Weegee, Man arrested for cross-dressing, 1939. Photo by Weegee.

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