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1985 trailer park family

Posted 15 days ago
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Grandma enjoyed a smoke and a drink after dinner in the 1960s

Posted 15 days ago
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A photo taken of Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger shortly before he was sent to a concentration camp for child molestation. Dirlewanger was later freed due to his Nazi Party connections and placed in charge of a Waffen-SS unit composed mainly of convicted murderers and rapists (Germany, 1934) .

Posted 16 days ago
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The serbian Black Hand terrorist group which later assasinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. 1911-1915.

Posted 16 days ago
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Operators on a switchboard 1960s

Posted 16 days ago
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Suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem being escorted by South Vietnamese soldiers, just moments before his infamous execution, which was caught on camera. Saigon during the Tet Offensive, February 1968.

Posted 16 days ago
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"Some have no comment" (Dana Summers, 1988)

Posted 16 days ago
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Soviet officials view the remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov after the Soyuz 1 crash, USSR, April 1967

Posted 17 days ago
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Drivers license in 1974

Posted 17 days ago
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in 1991 Bernie Sanders delivered a speech to an empty U.S congress, advising against military intervention in the Gulf War.

Posted 17 days ago
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Arrest photos of IRA members Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan, taken after the two assassinated fanatically anti-Irish British Field Marshal Henry Wilson on his front doorstep in London. The ensuing crisis was the immediate trigger for the Irish Civil War (Wandsworth Prison, 1922) .

Posted 17 days ago
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Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi sobbing during the funeral of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser, 1970. Gaddafi idolized Nasser & considered him to be his personal hero, he was so distraught throughout the service that he fainted multiple times (856x820)

Posted 18 days ago