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Hitler standing in rain at the Wolfsschanze station to receive Mussolini. He survived an assassination attempt that day and was only slightly injured, 20 July 1944. (Colorized) (991×1376)
Posted 19 days ago
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An Armenian mother kneels by her dead daughter in a field outside Aleppo, Syria. Sometime between 1915 and 1919, the Ottoman Empire.
Posted 20 days ago
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Nat King Cole's family in Los Angeles during the late 1950s after moving into a wealthy white neighborhood, they stood their ground even when racist neighbors burned a cross in their yard and allegedly even poisoned their family dog.
Posted 20 days ago
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On 27 October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet Navy Vice-Admiral Vasily Arkhipov, refused to agree to fire a nuclear torpedo at a U.S. Navy warship, avoiding certain nuclear warfare between the two superpowers.
Posted 21 days ago
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Kodachrome shot of a group of children navigating in a river with their raff, circa 1950s
Posted 22 days ago
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