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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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St Paul's Cathedral during the Blitz, December 29 1940. (1500x1150)

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Which country had the best 90s Dance music?

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'I Am An American'. Japanese-American Tatsuro Masuda unfurled this banner at his store on 13th and Franklin street, Oakland, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Masuda would be sent to an internment camp a few months later and his store would be sold. March 1942.

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My great-grandmother when she was ten years old (Karpathos, 1909)

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Carl Newton Mahan plays with a doll during a court hearing after he shot and killed another boy during a fight. At age six, Mahan became the youngest person to ever be tried for murder in American history, Kentucky, 1929 .

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Pro Circumcised Poster Uganda 2009?

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My great-great grandmother was a baller

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Mose Wright takes the witness stand and points to Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, identifying them as the two men who kidnapped and lynched his 14-year-old nephew Emmett Till, Mississippi, September 21, 1955 .

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Dr Raymond Martinot standing at the freezer containing the body of his wife preserved by self-made cryonics, in 1993. He was also frozen at his death, but following a failure of the temperature control system, their bodies were finally cremated. (1260x700)

Posted 14 days ago