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Chinese chairman Mao Zedong swimming in the Yangtze river in Wuhan, China, 1966

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A Soviet junior political officer (Politruk) urges Soviet troops forward against German positions (12 July 1942)

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Political cartoon (by Tom Toles) of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, 2009

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Wife (girlfriend at the time) and I at the Limelight in Atlanta circa 1982

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My dad & his sisters on Halloween 1968

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Gay activists carry a mile-long rainbow banner through New York City to mark the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. June 26, 1994.

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A day after his execution on this day in 1967, Che Guevara's corpse was displayed to the news media in the laundry house of the Vallegrande hospital, Bolivia.

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My mother's HS graduation picture - 1940

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For almost 70 years, the young girl in this post-war photograph was unidentified. Research traced her identity to Teresa Adwentowska, from Warsaw, who was severely affected by wartime trauma. In a residence for disturbed children, she drew a picture of "home" on the blackboard. 1948.

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Mural displayed by Chinese officials during a diplomatic conference at Yalta, 2013. The image, designed by Chinese artist Shi Xinning, shows a version of the famous "big 3" conference at Yalta with Mao inserted into it

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The booking photo of Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, publisher of the Der Stürmer. He was the first person to be found guilty of inciting genocide. It was found that Streicher's articles and speeches were so incendiary that they had made him an accomplice to murder, Germany, 1945 .

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My parents’ wedding in 1954. He was 19, and she was 18.

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