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The 'Hasanlu lovers' died around 800 B.C. and were discovered in 1972 in iran They died in what seems to be an embrace or kiss and remained that way for 2800 years

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"Tradition" — a cartoon by Osmani Simanca, 2015

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I'll never be as cool as my grandparents, 1950's

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A young Bosnian woman holding an AK-47. Smokes a cigarette as she waits for a funeral service in Sarajevo (1992)

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106 year-old William Casby holding his great-great-granddaughter. He was born into slavery in Danville, Virginia in 1857, worked as a longshoreman, and lived to be 113, photograph by Richard Avedon, 1963

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Ann Hodges was the only human being in recorded history to be hit by a meteorite 1954 in Sylacauga

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My parents on one of their first dates, early 1950's.

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The Soviet Union flag is lowered and the Russian flag is raised over the Kremlin. December 25, 1991.

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Exhaust U.S. Army nurse Amy Stuart, 5th MASH unit in Saudí Arabia naps on a cot while hugging a teddy bear sent by her family during Operation Desert Storm feb, 22, (1991).

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"Divorce Leads Children to the Worst Places" Iranian Cartoon by Behrouz Firoozi, 2013

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Grave of three German soldiers on the Havel River, Berlin, 1946.

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My gggg-great grandmother. Today is her 174th birthday. She died in 1912 from gangrene of the limb. I don’t know when exactly this photo was taken.

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