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An Afghan communist revolutionary wearing traditional clothing and holding an AK-47 in Kabul, 1984.

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When the first husband wouldn’t smile for the photographer. 1979

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Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Beregovoy and Pavel Popovich present a hunting rifle as a gift to Neil Armstrong. June 1, 1970.

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American Iron Front poster, 2021.

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The Eight Nazi Saboteurs of Operation Pastorius caught on American soil during World War II. Washington DC, 1942

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Mom as Elvira in San Diego - 1980s

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A Fashionable Woman, c1890s.

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German dentist Martin Hellinger stands as he is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for war crimes by a British military tribunal. He removed the dental gold of dead prisoners at a concentration camp. After his release, the West German government paid him 10,000 DM in compensation, 1946 .

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A photograph taken of 11-year-old Florence "Sally" Horner several months after she was kidnapped by 51-year-old Frank La Salle. La Salle held Horner captive for a total of 21 months, New Jersey, 1948 .

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The skirts were short and the hair was high in the 1960s

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Cartoon depicting Uncle Sam entering Mexico in 1916 to punish Pancho Villa with Uncle Sam saying, "I've had about enough of this."

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American soldiers meet an Armigero in 1944, Florence.

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