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

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Iraqi prisoner of war comforting his 4-year-old son in Najaf, Iraq March 31, 2003

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Little girl stares towards the hands of a woman preparing the polio vaccine, 1955.

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Field marshal Bernard Montgomery walking with decorated Soviet Marshals in front of the Brandenburg Gate, shortly after the Battle of Berlin. (1945)

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"Out of the Ruins" September 11 and the Rise of Mass Surveillance, 2006

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In 1920 in England, Mary Ann Bevan entered the “ Ugliest Woman in the World ” contest after developing acromegaly and losing her husband, doing it simply to put food on the table for her kids

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Father posing with his 2 childrens and dog, circa 1880s

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie minutes before their assasination that would ingnite WW1, June 28,1914

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7-year-old Drew Barrymore casually removes her fake teeth on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson while promoting E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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A US soldier rests in what used to be Saddam’s chair under a painting of Uday playing with a tiger, watched by his parents Saddam and Sajeda, April 2003.

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Civil war veteran poses with his grandchildren, circa 1880. Cabinet card

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The first ever underwater photograph taken in the South of France at a depth of 164 feet by Louis Boutan in 1899

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"We are part of a great Russia." Russia. School. 2017.

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