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In 1954, Macy’s in New York City employed Doberman Pinschers as night watchdogs. (840x627)

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My grandfather in front of the Twin Towers under construction around 1970

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Evelyn McHale, who leapt to her death from the Empire State Building, 1947.

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"This road was built by NATO" (International Herald Tribune, 2006)

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Serial killer Jake Bird (center) sits with two men asking him about his crimes. After his conviction, Bird declared, "All you guys who had anything to do with this case are going to die before I do." Five people tied to the case died within a year, Washington State Penitentiary, 1949 .

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My Dad, the blond guy, with his coworkers in San Diego, 1980

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Bud the Pit Bull, became the first dog to cross the United States in an automobile alongside his owner Horatio Nelson Jackson in 1903. (636x446)

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Former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny in Madrid, Spain, 1970. Skorzeny led the famous 1943 Gran Sasso raid in which Mussolini was rescued from captivity. After the war he escaped allied captivity & worked as an arms dealer, advising authoritarian leaders like Nasser & Peron, as well as Mossad. (1300x859)

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"Eliminating sexual violence is a political responsability" Japanese communist poster, 2010s.

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I lost my eye to cancer when I was about 5. This is me on my first picture day (1998).

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Kodachrome photo of 4 girls at at birthday party, 1951. Love the little candy baskets

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Rae Carruth, a wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers, is arrested for murder of his pregnant girlfriend, whom he had killed for refusing to get an abortion, in Western Tennessee. Along with OJ Simpson and Aaron Hernandez, Carruth is one of the NFL's most notorious figures, 1999 .

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