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The corpse of Mussolini (second from left) next to Petacci (middle) and other executed fascists in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, 1945.

Posted 11 days ago
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Pygmy family posing with European man for scale. Pygmy derives from Greek pygmaios, a term for dwarf from Greek mythology. There are hypotheses to explain the short stature such as lesser availability of protein-rich food sources or lower average levels of ultraviolet light. 1921.

Posted 12 days ago
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Mom and baby taking a nap 1970s

Posted 12 days ago
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"Profilo Continuo" (1933, Bertelli) A Continuous Profile of the face of Mussolini

Posted 12 days ago
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President George W. Bush lying in front of the White House with his Scottish Terrier Barney. (2001)

Posted 12 days ago
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Rodney Dangerfield, ca. 1974

Posted 13 days ago
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James Cameron, 88, stands in a gallery of Black Holocaust Museum, which he founded, in Milwaukee. When Cameron was 16, he was nearly lynched in Indiana. The noose was around his neck, but he was spared when someone in the mob vouched for him at the last moment (Wisconsin, 2003) .

Posted 13 days ago
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Bright color at this wedding in South Carolina, 1956.

Posted 13 days ago
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German POWs from the North Africa Campaign arriving at Camp Aliceville, Alabama, US to work as farmers during World War II (1943)

Posted 13 days ago
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Iraqis watching the trial of Saddam Hussein in a cafe along the river Tigres. (2004)

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"Keep the world clean" - Anti-Israel poster from a demonstration by the Norwiegian student of the Warsaw Medical University, 2023

Posted 13 days ago
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Children pose for their portrait in Massachusetts, early 1900s

Posted 14 days ago