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Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.

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Hiroshima, Japan, 1945: This shadow that seems almost drawn on the white of five steps, tells the last moments of a person. All that remains is the shadow caused by the flash of the atomic bomb that August 6th.

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US soldiers taking pictures with an 2800 years old statue in the Iraq national museum. Iraq ,Baghdad 2004

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Weegee, Man arrested for cross-dressing, 1939. Photo by Weegee.

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Soviet poster (1944) showing Allied guns surrounding the crumbling Nazi tower. Artist: Vasily Selivanov.

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Muamar Gaddafi and 2 of his elite Bodyguards from the all -female "Amazonian Guard" in the early 2000s.

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Bozo the Clown having a smoke with the mayor of Chicago, Jane Byrne c 1980.

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Franceska Mann (1917-1943) was a courageous Jewish dancer. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Jewish dancer Franceska Mann began to perform a striptease. When the guards asked her to remove her clothes, she took advantage of one of their distractions to steal his weapon and shoot him dead.

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Child observes family of armadillos, Oct 1929

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The American flying ace Lt Col Louis Edward Curdes, who shot down planes from all three Axis powers as well as one American. Philippines, 1945

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“The Trickle-down theory" An anti-Reagan poster 1984

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Christmas can be very exhausting ! 1960s

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German General Heinz Guderian sharing a laugh with Soviet General Semyon Krivoshein (who was also Jewish) during the German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk on September 22, 1939.

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