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Rachel Carson, author of the book 'Silent Spring'. It documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides. She accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation and public officials of accepting the industry's marketing claims unquestioningly (1962)

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Actress Dolores Reed poses during a portrait session in Los Angeles, 1956. Colorized. .

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Iraqi child remains after shelter exploded under US bombing that killed 408 civilians. Baghdad, Iraq. 13 February 1991

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Bodies after the bombing of Dresden, Germany in February 1945

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Chechen Kids after their shelter came under Russian rocket fire. Grozny, Chechnya, January 10, 1995.

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Horace Watson recording the songs of Fanny Cochrane Smith, considered to be the last fluent speaker of any Tasmanian language, using an Edison phonograph. 1903

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(Holocaust) Moments before a young child is executed into a mass grave. Massacre carried out by Germans and Ukrainians in Miropol, Ukraine, on October 13, 1941.

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Chechen children after their shelter exploded under Russian rocket fire. Grozny, Chechnya, January 10, 1995.

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The creation of 14th Waffen-SS division "Galician". Nazi officials and first batch of Ukrainian volunteers. Sanok, Galicia(Poland), May 1943

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A sled dog listens to a gramophone. circa 1911.

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Soviet tankers giving some canned milk to local polar bears. circa 1950.

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Only one of two photographs in existence of the US Supreme Court in session. Cameras are forbidden in the Supreme Court, but this photograph was taken by a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, 1937.

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