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My grandfather and his brothers after they all survived WW2.

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US forces landing on the shores of Iwo Jima, February 1945.

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My uncle standing beside his older wife he had recently married, on a beach in Italy (1960) - People used to think they were mother and son. She was late 40s and he was mid 20s. She inherited a lot of money. He may have been a golddigger idk lmao

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North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh visits North Korean President Kim Il Sung in 1957

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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow posing for the camera; photo recovered from their hideout in 1933 .

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My grandmother holding my mom as a baby in 1969

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Members of the Imperial Guard of Iran, an 18,000-strong elite unit of the Iranian military devoted to protecting the Shah, 1975. They were often referred to as "the Immortals" after the legendary corps of bodyguards who protected the ancient Emperors of Persia (1190x850)

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Handgun Control, Inc. (1981)

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French soldiers passing by a dog wearing googles and smoking a pipe, 1915.

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Incendiary bombs are dropped from USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers – over the port city of Kobe, Japan, c. June 4th, 1945.

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1897. When a Woman was selling her Produce Outside of the Colosseum in Rome Italy.

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Stellan Skarsgård and his son Alexander, 1978

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