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Sure, it's cold and snowy, but, not 1978 snowy. Photo from the blizzard of 1978 in Cortland, New York

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1915 British “Daddy what did you do in the Great War ?”

Posted 12 days ago
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June, 1966: Women use compact mirrors in packed crowd to catch sight of the queen in London, England.

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13-year-old Iranian child soldier Hassan Janju crawls through a marsh during combat with Iraqi forces. Hassan would die four years later at the age of 16. Southern Iran, 1980.

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Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (1882-1951) and his daughter Princess Alexandrine. Princess Alexandrine was born with Down syndrome. (1916)

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Young lady giving a smile 70 years ago, December of 1955.

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81 years ago today- The Malmedy Massacre during the Battle of the Bulge, December 17, 1944. Waffen SS troops under the command of Joachim Peiper murdered 84 U.S. Army POWs who had surrendered in the opening stages of the German offensive.

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Polaroid of Steve Buscemi in drag on the set of Somebody to Love (1994)

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A woman in the USSR has equal rights with a man! USSR 1946

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Spymaster Brigadier Yasub Dogar from Pakistan's ISI enjoying qahwa (tea) on a mountain top in Gardez, Afghanistan whilst the Soviet ammunition depots are being destroyed in the background. Soviet-Afghan war, early 1980s,

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Fred Flintstone punching bag , 1968

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Three of the seven linked forts in the Thames Estuary which guarded British shipping lanes against mines and mine laying aeroplanes, 29th September 1945.

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