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Mother and daughter pose in Edmonton, North-West Territory Canada, 1900s

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A member of the Fallschirmjäger (Nazi paratrooper) is confronted by local villagers on June 2, 1941, following the Battle of Crete. Many Cretans went into battle with only household items in lieu of weapons. Several paratroopers were knifed and clubbed to death.

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This Is the Hair of Puyi, the Last Emperor of China (1922)

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Smiling couple posing for their photo, 1974.

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In 1935, Hessy Levinsons Taft was featured by the Nazis in various magazines and pamphlets as the ideal Aryan baby. She was Jewish, and her family fled Nazi Germany. She died this week in California at the age of 91 .

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"Politically Incorrect" Far-Right Painting by Jon McNaughton, 2022

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Grandfather 1973

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Sanatorium for lung diseases in Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland, 1970s. Photo by Chris Niedenthal.

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My Aunt Donna was such a vibe.

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Sharecropper mother teaching her children numbers and letters in a make-do classroom she added to their Transylvania, Louisiana home, 1939. (960x776)

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A rare vintage photograph of an onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan, circa 1870s.

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Me and my grandfather on Christmas morning, 1981.

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