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Danish troops patrol the Iraqi southern town of Al-Garma, 15 km north of the southern city of Basra, Iraq 2003(670x415)

Posted 14 days ago
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Young lady fliying a kite in Central park, New York, 1970s.

Posted 14 days ago
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Joseph Taborsky hugs his mother after his exoneration from death row. He spent 4 years on death row for a 1950 murder before his conviction was overturned. Just over a year later, Taborsky murdered 5 people and confessed to the 1950 murder. He was executed in 1960 (Connecticut, 1955) .

Posted 14 days ago
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"The Scourged Back," depicts an escaped enslaved man named Peter, also known as Gordon, showing the severe keloid scarring on his back resulting from brutal whippings. (1863)

Posted 15 days ago
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My baby and me 1980.

Posted 15 days ago
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"You Are Fake News", Pro-Trump Painting by Jon McNaughton, Circa September 2020.

Posted 15 days ago
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Me as a boy in 1965 with newly completed model airplane minutes before destroying it on maiden flight. Also me 56 years later with surprise Christmas gift from co-worker of identical replica.

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A photo of Ora Ralph Thomas, an Illinois sheriff's deputy during the Prohibition Era. In 1925, Thomas, who also led an anti-Klan paramilitary, was assassinated by three Ku Klux Klan members. He shot and killed all three of his own murderers before collapsing from his injuries .

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Young father holding his daughter at the Michigan state fair, 1973

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Segregationists taunting 6-year-old Ruby Bridges with a black doll in a coffin as she enters an all white school in New Orleans. One woman continuously threatened to poison her.

Posted 16 days ago
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A rare photograph of Nikola Tesla's funeral, 12th January 1943. His casket is covered with flags of USA and Yugoslavia.

Posted 16 days ago
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Grammie. She was a midwife, a mother of 11 and a grandmother to many. She was the matriarch and not to be crossed. She is still a family legend

Posted 16 days ago