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A South Vietnamese woman crying over a plastic bag containing the remains of her husband, he was found in a mass grave of non-combatants murdered by Communist forces during the Tet Offensive. His body was found a year later, in April 1969. Photo taken by Larry Barrows.

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My mom with Santa in 1952

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1865 portrait of Brigham Young, 2nd president of the Church of Latter-day Saints, founder of Salt Lake city & the first Governor of Utah. Young had 57 children with 56 different wives (5624x4242)

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British cartoon about Joseph Stalin ignoring the signs of a German led invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941

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Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635x861)

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I posted my grandpa’s mugshot yesterday. Here’s what he looked like from the front.

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Nazi archeological team in Tibet, spending time with locals, trying to find origins of the "Aryan" race, led by Ernst Schäfer, 1938-1939.

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Jane Goodall with infant chimp Flint in Tanzania, 1964

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Johnny cash shows us how he gets in out of his Ferrari 308 in 1988.

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"But It's Okay Over Here?"-1971

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My mother-in-law getting a rinse in her mom’s beauty shop. Billings, MT 1954-ish.

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A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .

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