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Seto groom and bride at their wedding in Värska, Setomaa, Estonia in 1912.

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Presidents Kennedy, Eisenhower, and Truman at Eleanor Roosevelt’s funeral. November 10, 1962.

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«Germany 30 years after…» Political cartoon by Patrick Chappatte, 2019

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Cleaning house 1960s

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Volcanologist David A. Johnston, pictured 13 hours before he lost his life during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. He was the first to report the eruption from an observation post 6 miles away, transmitting "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" before being overtaken by the blast

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Some of the 300 to 500 people who tried to lynch a black teenager charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. The lynching was foiled when Tennessee National Guard troops shot and stabbed dozens of the attackers, four of them fatally, after tear gas proved ineffective (Shelbyville, 1934) .

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Destitute family, 1936

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Florida police officer James Duckett is fingerprinted after his arrest for murder. He'd asked 11-year-old Teresa McAbee to get in his car, presumably to take her home since it was late. He then took the girl to an isolated area, where he raped her and then drowned her in a river, 1987 .

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My brother and his wife on their wedding day, 1990s

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Car Sharing is a "Must"! 1942.

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Former NOPD officer Antoinette Frank is escorted out of the restaurant where she and her boyfriend murdered three people during a robbery. The jury had toured it during her trial. Frank had returned to the scene in her patrol car, pretending to be first responder (Louisiana, 1995) .

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Group of friends give their best sunny smiles at the beach, Atlantic city, New Jersey, 1960s.

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