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leftist revolutionary woman cleaning her gun. Tehran, iran, 1979 (484x741)
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'Atomic Annie' fires a 280mm 'Artillery Fired Atomic Projectile (AFAP)' called Grable as part of the wider Operation Upshot–Knothole nuclear tests (11 tests in all). It was the first artillery delivered nuclear projectile. Photo taken on May 25, 1953
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Father Charles Edward Coughlin, the enormously influential "radio priest," speaks circa 1935. At his peak, his broadcasts reached an estimated 30 million people weekly before he wore out his welcome with his increasingly antisemitic, isolationist, pro-Nazi, and anti-FDR rhetoric.
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Soviet Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 1960. Destroy Nazi Germany, win valuable prizes.
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Homeless brother and sister search empty cans for morsels of food and try to keep warm beside a small fire at a railroad yard during the Korean War. Circa 1950
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Crowded transport ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-Day, 1945
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A photo of Abdul Wali, an Afghan farmer. In 2003, he was falsely accused of being a terrorist. Hoping to clear his name, he turned turned himself in to the Americans. A CIA contractor would brutally torture Wali to death over the course of 3 days, beating him until he begged for death .
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Brennan Farm House - West 84th Street & Broadway, New York City, NY today - 1879
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SkyTrain, the new rapid transit of Metro Vancouver, arrives at the Expo 86 Centre. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1986.
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Habitat 67, a modular housing complex at the Expo 67 World's Fair in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1967. Designed by Israel-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie, Habitat 67 is used as a housing complex to this day.
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