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This man just hit the bullseye. A camera automatically takes a picture when someone performs this feat. Location is the Rockaway Playland Shooting Gallery sometime in the early 1950s. I wonder if he was an infantry man in WW2.

Posted 10 days ago
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A young pro Taylor fighter, mortally wounded, does not immediately realize the seriousness of his condition because he is under the influence of drugs, Liberia, July 2003.

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A starving Irish family from Carraroe, County Galway, during the Famine (1845-1852). Source: National Library of Ireland .

Posted 11 days ago
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"We need your land as a buffer for the Imperialist" Bill Mauldin 1983

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Vietnamese women and children in Mỹ Lai photographed by U.S. Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle moments before they were killed during the My Lai Massacre, March 16, 1968 .

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My great-grandmother holds my mother (1981), and later, me. Both in Kyrgyzstan.

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Egyptian president anwar sadat at the great pyramids in March 1979, if you look closely you'll notice he's sitting on a replica of one of the thrones of tutankhamun (1072×1500)

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I was possibly the most rootinest tootinest cowgirl in all of the (mid)West 🤠 (1995)

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Canadians in Yukon territory celebrates the end of the 19th century with a Masquerade Ball at Pioneer Hall on December 31, 1899

Posted 12 days ago
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Holding my first very own cat, 1959

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Future leader of North korea Kim Jong il inspecting high heels, (Kim himself was known for wearing shoes with a heel to increase his height) 1980s (4032×3024)

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'10 years of NATO' — Swiss cartoon (May 1959, Nebelspatler magazine) celebrating the tenth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty

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