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

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

Posted 15 days ago
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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.

Posted 15 days ago
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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)

Posted 16 days ago
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Since you all loved my dad in LA 1974, here he is in Latvia, c. 1910

Posted 16 days ago

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

Posted 16 days ago
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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) .

Posted 16 days ago
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Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen covered in paint by a protester over Iraq invasion involvement. (2003)

Posted 16 days ago
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"Now you're safe from terrorist attacks" (Chappate, 2006)

Posted 17 days ago
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My Dad, when he enlisted in the USCG, in 1968. He passed on 10/10/25.

Posted 17 days ago
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Launch of the James Caird lifeboat from Elephant Island on April 24th 1916. Ernest Shackleton and five others would journey over 800 miles to rescue the 22 trapped on the Antarctic island.

Posted 17 days ago
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Orson Welles signaling for silence inside CBS's radio studio while directing the infamous "War of the Worlds" radio show that numerous sources claimed lead to mass panic due to most listeners tuning in late and the show itself having no commercial breaks (October 30th, 1938)

Posted 17 days ago
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Saturday night , time for Lawrence Welk, 1960s

Posted 17 days ago