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My dad in 1968 and same orange trees 57 years later
Posted 11 days ago
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Christer Pettersson arrives at his apartment outside Stockholm, Sweden, in 1989 after the appeals court freed him from his life sentence and conviction for the 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme
Posted 12 days ago
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My 3x great-aunt, Blanche, with her younger twin brother and sister, Edwin and Edna in 1907, watched her parents be murdered after she couldn’t stop their killer. She was left guardian of her six siblings at eighteen years old.
Posted 12 days ago
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Life Magazine 1947, "The Most Beautiful Suicide", Evelyn McHale at the bottom of the Empire State Building.
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A swastika adorned door knocker to hit the carving of a jewish caricature, Nürnberg, 1938
Posted 13 days ago
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My 2x great uncle, Kennie. This photo was taken in 1933. Two years later, in 1935, he died of an ear infection at age ten.
Posted 13 days ago
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“So, how does life under capitalism treat you?” (Russian Communist Party billboard) // Russia // 2010
Posted 13 days ago
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HQ 2nd Battalion 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment w/a member of the Dutch Resistance with annotations. Vicinity of Stanggas, Bischofswiesen, May 1945.
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Detained bandits and gangsters lie on the ground before interrogation in Yekaterinburg, Russia, 1992.
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