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Pope Francis reaches out (KAL, 2014)
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Father holds her daughter who sits on his leg for their portrait, circa 1870s. tintype.
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Jakobus Onnen, a 35 year old former teacher poses for a photo before executing an unknown Jewish man, simply known as ‘The Last Jew in Vinnitsa’. 28 July 1941. Onnen was finally identified after 84 years, having been killed in combat in 1943.
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Mom swears she was "Mod" and it's "Completely different than emo!" 1987
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Members of the French Special Forces taking Iraqi soldiers prisoner during the 1991 Gulf War, better known as Operation Desert Storm.
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This man just hit the bullseye. A camera automatically takes a picture when someone performs this feat. Location is the Rockaway Playland Shooting Gallery sometime in the early 1950s. I wonder if he was an infantry man in WW2.
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A young pro Taylor fighter, mortally wounded, does not immediately realize the seriousness of his condition because he is under the influence of drugs, Liberia, July 2003.
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A starving Irish family from Carraroe, County Galway, during the Famine (1845-1852). Source: National Library of Ireland .
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Vietnamese women and children in Mỹ Lai photographed by U.S. Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle moments before they were killed during the My Lai Massacre, March 16, 1968 .
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My great-grandmother holds my mother (1981), and later, me. Both in Kyrgyzstan.
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Egyptian president anwar sadat at the great pyramids in March 1979, if you look closely you'll notice he's sitting on a replica of one of the thrones of tutankhamun (1072×1500)
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