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This photograph was taken by Lawrence Beutler in 1930. Two black men were hanged after being falsely accused of raping a white girl.

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Don't let them take your cigarettes (Luckovich, 1996)

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Passengers aboard an Eastern Airlines flight from the UK to Australia, 1935. Flight took 11 days (with stops).

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Jacques Biederer, an erotic photography pioneer, hard at work in Paris, 1928. (648x481)

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Kurt Cobain eating brownie SNL! 1993! Charles Barkley hosts!

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Soldier in an Italian home spraying a mixture of DDT and kerosene to control malaria, 1945.

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'Endurance' stuck in the ice 1915, Trapped and crushed by Antarctic pack ice, the crew of the Endurance survived nearly 500 days, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctica

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a girl and her pet toad, venice beach, California, 1936

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U.S. Air Force lieutenant captured by a young North Vietnamese female soldier, Vietnam, 1967.

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Ron Cobb (1975)

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Colonel Andrei Vasilyevich Zheludov, who was wounded 3 times, awarded the Order of Glory 3rd class, the Order of the Red Star, the Medal for the Liberation of Sevastopol, and two medals for military merit lying on his deathbed in 2010.

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The pony picture 1955 me and my two brothers I am a twin and our brother is 11 months older

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