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As her public defender looks on, Tammy Middlebrooks, 19, pleads guilty for her role in the lynching of Kerrick Majors, a 14-year-old black boy, in Nashville. Tammy and two other white drifters tortured and murdered Majors after he accidentally broke a $2 vase (Tennessee, 1989) .

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Ozzy Osbourne showing how much sugar he likes in his coffee,1984

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A Harlem Hellfighter who rescued a puppy during WWI poses for the camera, 1918

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Little boy poses proudly with his perfectly tailored 2 piece suit and matching fedora, Washington D.C., 25 of April 1948.

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US Marines enjoying their collection of Japanese skulls. (1944)

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An injured woman after the bombing of Plaza de Mayo in Argentina, Buenos Aires, June 16, 1955. A total of 308 civilian would be killed by the military bombing of a peaceful protest in one of the busiest parts of Buenos Aires, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentinian history

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"We Romans are great road builders", 1938 US propaganda poster criticizing Mussolini.

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Students heading to university on a snowy day in Tehran, Iran (1976)

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Donald Trump, his children Eric and Ivanka, and Jeffrey Epstein in 1993, attending the opening of the Harley-Davidson Cafe in Manhattan.

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Adolf Hitler with Helga Goebbels during a walk on Heiligendamm beach. 13th July, 1935. Helga would be murdered by her parents in May 1945.

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Seconds after an Iraqi girl had her family shot in front of her by American soldiers. Tal Afar, Iraq, in January 2005.

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Actress Red Wing at a tea break, New York 1930s.

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