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Mother to be, poses with all her gifts from her baby shower, I guess they were sure it would be a boy, circa 1950s.

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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy at Waterloo Station - London in 1932

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German Chancellor Willy Brandt kneels down in atonement infront of the Warsaw WW2 Memorial, 1970.

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"WOMEN FOR…" Political Cartoon by Rivers, Circa 2023.

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A German soldier with his French girlfriend in the occupied Paris, 1942.

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Young couple smiling to each other in the photobooth, circa 1950s.

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A pile of human bones and skulls at the German Majdanek extermination camp, near Lublin - after the arrival of the Soviet Army which captured the camp nearly intact, c. July - August 1944.

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Pilot Victor Vizcarra, after being evacuated from a jungle landing site. After ejecting, his flame-engulfed F-105 fighter-bomber passed beneath him as he parachuted and crashed into a mountain. Vietnam, 1966.

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My mom showing my parents first living room furniture. I now have the “cog” table. 1976.

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Georgia Tann with an unknown toddler, circa 1945. Tann owned and operated the unlicensed Tennessee Children's Home Society adoption agency which between the mid-1920s and 1950 trafficked over 5,000 children in a black market baby adoption scheme.

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Gary Sinise here. Here's me getting my first guitar in 4th grade back in the early 1960s

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"You Deserved It" Far Right Anti American 9/11 Poster - (early 2010s)

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