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

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'Stalingrad' — Czech anti-Nazi print (1943) showing Goebbels delivering a speech with the German war dead lined up behind him. Artist: Antonín Pelc.

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A newspaper man after US President Franklin D. Roosevelt died - Photo taken by a young Stanley Kubrick, which started his career at Look magazine. (April 1945)(1200x1510)

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Baby kissing his mama in 1921. (Toledo, Spain)

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Benito Mussolini posing beside a bust of himself,1926 (600×443)

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George W. McLaurin in 1948, segregated from the rest of his class at the University of Oklahoma. (768x576)

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I can't get enough of this wonderful 1933 portrait of my dad's parents and sisters

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"This, my Führer, is the new uniform for our armies in Italy” British satire on the German invasion of Italy (1943)

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US President Jimmy Carter collapsing while running a 6 mile race at Camp David, 1979. He had to be carried off the track but quickly recovered. (3000x2013)

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Franca Viola (1963) Italian woman who became famous in the 60s for refusing a "rehabilitating marriage" with her victimiser after being kidnapped and raped. She was one of the first Italian women to publicly refuse this tradition and, with her family, successfully appealed to law to prosecute him.

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A photo of Leatherman (1885), a mysterious but gentle vagabond who walked the same 365-mile route around Connecticut and New York dressed in all leather for decades. (374 x 510)

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Still married since 1966

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A British blacksmith removing the leg irons off a slave, 1907.

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