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

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The aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre 1989, taken and smuggled out of the country by Hong Kong photographer Kan Tai Wong.

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Human remains from Spanish Reconcentración camps in Cuba during the Cuban War of Independence, 1898.

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"Anger Transference" (Richard Sargent, 1954)

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Stalin's son Yakov Dzhugashvili in German captivity, 1941. He was later killed in a prison camp.

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My grandparents first date at the local milkshake bar. Circa 1949, NSW Australia.

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A radiologist checks a miner's stomach for swallowed diamonds, Kimberley, South Africa, 1954

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Site of the execution of the Russian imperial family at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, photographed in 1919, one year after the murders.

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Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci, 1991.

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My grandfather holding my mom, 1971

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Hotel owner pouring acid into swimming pool while black patrons swim, St. Augustine, Florida 1964

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"Jesus did not choose non white apostles" Protest against Harold Perry, first openly African- American Catholic bishop 1966

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Empire State Building before the city grew skyscrapers, 1930s

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