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Moroccan police commissioner Mustapha Tabet hangs his head at his trial. With the protection of other cops, Tabet kidnapped, assaulted, and raped at least 518 women and girls, albeit he might've had 1,200+ victims. It remains the worst police corruption scandal in the country, 1993 .

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"Far-right parties, lobbying for the interests of Russia in Europe". Early 2010s map warning about Russian influence in Europe.

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Cat eating corn, photo by Allan Grant in Life Magazine, 1951

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Jean-Claude Van Damme demonstrates his signature kicks in a suit, 1994.

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U.S. soldiers posing with the bodies of Moro men, women & children following the Bud Dajo massacre on Jolo Island, Philippines, March 7, 1906

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A jailhouse photo of D.B. Napier, taken after his arrest for raping and murdering a teenage girl. After the police saved him from a lynch mob, a shaken Napier confessed that he'd once helped lynch someone nearly 20 years earlier. The confession made national headlines, Louisiana, 1934 .

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Traveling knife grinder. He'd carry a traveling grinding wheel from town to town and offered to sharpen knives and other tools for a fee. Circa 1895.

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“The First Day of War” Soviet civilians in Moscow listen to the radio announcement that Germany has invaded the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941 (1590x1200)

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East German map of West German Ambassadors with previous Nazi German ties (1962)

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East German border guards gaze into West Berlin on November 11, 1989, two days after the Berlin Wall officially came down, ending twenty-eight years of separation.

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My grandparents (right) and her parents, who joined them on their honeymoon

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Cathy Guisewite and her cartoon Cathy, 1982.

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