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Rachmaninoff plays piano for his granddaughter Sophie in 1927, New York

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Photo of a footbridge connecting two walled off Jewish living areas in the Warsaw Ghetto, German occupied Poland, June 1942 (800x513)

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Salvatore Gravano, a hitman for John Gotti, prepares to testify in court. Despite being responsible for at least 19 murders, he would serve less than five years in prison. This came after Gravano agreed to become a key witness against Gotti and others in the Mafia, New York, 1993 .

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U.S. Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton near Shuri, Okinawa - June 14, 1945

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Illustration depicting the reunification of Germany published on the cover of The Spectator magazine, 24 February 1990

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My mom and her date to junior prom, circa 1974

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A young Lucy Liu, '90s

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Young lady poses in her prom dress. Little boy maybe sibling photobombs her shot, circa early 1950s. Kodachrome

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Picture of mobster and contract killer Charles Voyde Harrelson, father of actor Woody Harrelson, on trial for the murder of a federal judge, 1980's. He was convicted and sentenced to two life terms (1920x1283)

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Antisemitic propaganda poster from the White Movement during the Russian Civil War "Beat the vile beast with a Russian switch/twig, so that this bastard won't do any more harm to us"

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Models on the set of Queen's "Bicycle Race" music video. When the bike rental company found out about it, they demanded that the band buy all the used saddles. 1978

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Smiling in defiance of evil, Salomea Kostrubała was 14 when taken to Auschwitz (1942). She remained there for 2 years until a 1944 transfer to KL Natzweilter, where from she was liberated. She was a survivor.

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