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Grandma enjoyed a smoke and a drink after dinner in the 1960s
Posted 11 days ago
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A photo taken of Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger shortly before he was sent to a concentration camp for child molestation. Dirlewanger was later freed due to his Nazi Party connections and placed in charge of a Waffen-SS unit composed mainly of convicted murderers and rapists (Germany, 1934) .
Posted 12 days ago
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The serbian Black Hand terrorist group which later assasinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. 1911-1915.
Posted 12 days ago
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Suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem being escorted by South Vietnamese soldiers, just moments before his infamous execution, which was caught on camera. Saigon during the Tet Offensive, February 1968.
Posted 12 days ago
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Soviet officials view the remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov after the Soyuz 1 crash, USSR, April 1967
Posted 13 days ago
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in 1991 Bernie Sanders delivered a speech to an empty U.S congress, advising against military intervention in the Gulf War.
Posted 13 days ago
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Arrest photos of IRA members Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan, taken after the two assassinated fanatically anti-Irish British Field Marshal Henry Wilson on his front doorstep in London. The ensuing crisis was the immediate trigger for the Irish Civil War (Wandsworth Prison, 1922) .
Posted 13 days ago
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Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi sobbing during the funeral of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser, 1970. Gaddafi idolized Nasser & considered him to be his personal hero, he was so distraught throughout the service that he fainted multiple times (856x820)
Posted 14 days ago
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