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Fire bombed Greyhound Bus of the civil rights Freedom Riders following an attack by the Ku Klux Klan. Anniston, Alabama. 14 May 1961.

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A man in Afghanistan is condemned to death for being a supporter of the communist regime. He would later be shot and beheaded 1980.

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Cool looking kids, family portrait 1969, had this picture on a hard drive I found at my grandparents

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"It's Worth Repeating - "Really You Shouldn't", 1944.

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Johnny Clem, the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga” who shot and killed a Confederate officer and rose through the ranks to Major General at the time of his retirement in 1916.

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In 1946 Marilyn Monroe worked as a pin-up girl and charged $10 an hour to be photographed as reference for images that were turned into paintings. This is an example of one of the more 'safe for work' images. (1080x960)

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Since you all loved my dad in LA 1974, here he is in Latvia, c. 1910

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Moe Howard of The Three Stooges show how they performed slapstick without hurting each other.

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Hampton Lee, 24, Hugh Evans, 22, and Willis Evans, 18, are taken into custody for harassing a woman returning home from a party late at night, beating her male friend unconscious for trying to intervene, then kidnapping, robbing, and gang-raping her (South Carolina, September 22, 1940) .

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Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen covered in paint by a protester over Iraq invasion involvement. (2003)

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"Now you're safe from terrorist attacks" (Chappate, 2006)

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My Dad, when he enlisted in the USCG, in 1968. He passed on 10/10/25.

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