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The inside of a cell where an inmate was killed during the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot. During the riot, inmates, who'd obtained blowtorches, went to the protective custody unit, where they began using them, first on the doors, then on inmates, who were seen as "snitches", 1980 .

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Seventeen-year-old Badí, in custody before his execution at the hands of Násiri’d-Dín Sháh’s guards. His crime was delivering a letter to the Shah. Qajar Iran, 1869.

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Fifty-three years ago today she became my wife!

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'No Entry' — Lebanese illustration (December 1969) showing Israeli soldiers blocking Mary, Jesus and Joseph from entering the stable.

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University of Florida 1999

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A Finnish anti tank squad after destroying 26 enemy tanks. 1944. 1080x1106 original photo by Sa kuvat. Colored by Iiro Rautiainen

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Curtis Jones, 12, and his sister Catherine Jones, 13, appear in court after killing their father's girlfriend. They would be charged as adults. Unsealed documents later revealed that the two were being sexually abused and had resorted to murder when nobody believed them, Florida, 1999 .

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My grandma feeding my dad. Picture dated November 20, 1963

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Wernher von Braun, director of NASA's Marchall Space Flight Center, at his office in Huntsville, Alabama 1965.

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Industrial workers of the world 1911

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A Japanese soldier beheads a Chinese man after the capture of Nanking in 1937.

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Mom and Dad as newlyweds in the mid 1970's. Both gone now.

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