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The pony picture 1955 me and my two brothers I am a twin and our brother is 11 months older

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John Wayne Gacy celebrates the American bicentennial, July 4 1976. He was apprehended two years later and eventually charged with and convicted of 33 murders, a record at the time.

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My grandparents in 1977

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With smoke still billowing from the World Trade Center disaster site, President Bush en route from New York City to Washington. (2001)

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A very young pic of my dad in the 80s

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US Marine sliding down a marble handrail inside one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Tikrit, Iraq. (2003)

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2020 political cartoon featuring Jared Kushner.

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Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer at Princeton University, 29 of December 1947.

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Polish boy sitting in the ruins of Warsaw, September 1939

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My grandmother in loaf mode. Port Republic, Maryland c. 1920

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A group of 1,000 people gather to look at the body of Frank McManus, a 25-year-old white man, after his lynching. McManus was kidnapped from his cell and hanged from tree by an angry mob after his arrest for kidnapping and raping Mina Spears, a 4-year-old white girl (Minnesota, 1882) .

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Nazi collaborator Feodor Fedorenko, 70, enters a federal court in Miami as he fights to keep his U.S. citizenship and avoid extradition to the USSR. Fedorenko, a Ukrainian conscript in the Red Army, defected to the Germans during the war and was a guard at Treblinka (Florida, 1978) .

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