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"Tomoko and Mother in the Bath" Ryoko Kamimura is bathing her daughter Tomoko Kamimura, who suffers from Minamata disease, caused by mercury poisoning. Minamata, Kyūshū, Japan. December 1971.
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George Metesky - bomber who terrorized New York City from the 1940s to 1957, planted 33 bombs. He was found legally insane and committed to a state mental hospital.
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting, known for co-discovering insulin, also had a distinguished military career during both World Wars, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1915-1916
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A German soldier says farewell to his son before leaving for the front, c. 1940
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Poland based Ukrainian nationalist Mykola Lemyk, being charged for assassinating a Soviet diplomat in Lwów, Aleksei Maylov. He did so in protest against the genocide of Soviet Ukrainians, the Holodomor. Sentenced to life in prison, but escaped during WW2 and killed by the Gestapo (1933)(640x471)
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The British actress Audrey Kathleen Hepburn - as she was reviewing a script before recording a program for the United Nations Children's Fund - on the United Nations Radio, c. 1953
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Air France Flight 358 overshot the runway at Pearson International Airport (YYZ) bursting into flames. All passengers and crew were evacuated successfully, Toronto, Ontario, 2005
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A poor child living in Near Dameron, Saint Mary's County, Maryland. Youngest of 11 children of the Edward Gant family as Farm Security Administration (FSA) borrowers, September 1940
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Voice acting legend Mel Blanc is presented with a '58 Edsel for his 80th Birthday. Presented to him by Bugs Bunny, whom he voiced for 50 straight years. May 30th 1988
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Neville Chamberlain proclaims "peace in our time" after allowing Nazi Germany to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, September 30, 1938
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The body of Ludwig II Of Bavaria after his suicide by drowning in the starnberg See (1886) (424 x 599)
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