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American policies remain the same, only their faces change - Iran, 2018. (845×1162)

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1920s Chinese wedding photo.

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Willem Dafoe After Getting Expelled for Making an Adult Film - 21 in 1977.

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Civil War veteran Samuel Decker poses with the prosthetic arms he somehow made for himself, 1867.

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Two young ladies in a field (early 1900's)

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“Israeli Traveling Frog.” Artist V.I. Fomichev. USSR. Around the 1950s.

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Today is the 49th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising in South Africa. The photo that changed SA’s history: Hector Pieterson, a 12 year old who was shot and killed by police on 16 June 1976.

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Tatiana and Maria, two of Tsar Nicholas II’s daughters, photographed in 1906

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My folks getting hitched, mid 1960s. My father's been gone for 30 years, but he was a good dad. Happy father's day to all of you good dads out there.

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An East German Stasi officer was knocked to the ground by a US Army reconnaissance vehicle outside the Stasi’s East Berlin headquarters — 1988

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2010s Iranian Duginist poster showing Khomeinism outliving communism, fascism and Nazism, and potentially outliving capitalism.

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Kurdish bodybuilder Ali Malla circa 1960

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