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Ottoman officer with his children and their dog, Istanbul, 1910s 🇹🇷(1024x1024)

Posted 10 days ago
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"Racism tears Britain apart." - 2002 NUS/UJS Poster

Posted 11 days ago
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Chernobyl cleanup"Liquidators" cleaning off debris from the roof of the Chernobyl Nuclear power station,1986. Note the streaks on the photo film due to radiation exposure.

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During nighttime training, Australian troops were practicing a landing at the edge of a dam. To make the maneuver more realistic, explosives were used to simulate battlefield conditions. The drill took an unexpected turn when a charge of gelignite detonated under their boat. June 1942.

Posted 11 days ago
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My (now) wife on her way to high school, 1984

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Ariel view of the Normandy Landings on June 6, 1945

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The dead bodies of the Dalton Gang following their demise in the shootout during the 1892 Coffeyville bank robbery.

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An Interracial couple in the 1960s

Posted 12 days ago
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Lyndon B. Johnson yelling at the pilots of a nearby plane to cut their engines so that John F. Kennedy could speak as Kennedy is seen trying to calm him down. Taken during the 1960 presidential campaign in Amarillo, Texas.

Posted 12 days ago
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Steve Greenberg (2010)

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Carrie Fisher, 1980

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A bride who received a gift from her U.S. Marine fiancé containing the skull of a Japanese soldier he had killed writes him a letter of gratitude in response. The photo was published in Life magazine on May 22, 1944.

Posted 12 days ago