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Toni Jo Henry, the only woman to die in Louisiana’s electric chair, heads to the Calcasieu Courthouse to be executed, her headscarf hid a freshly shaved head. November 28, 1942

Posted 19 days ago
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Gary Sinise here wishing you all a Happy Halloween. Here I am with my childhood friends on Halloween from 1960 in Blue Island, Illinois

Posted 19 days ago
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Messerschmitt Bf 110 German Fighter Bomber after being shot down, 10th October 1940, London, England.

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Napoleon arrives in Hitler's tent and puts Hitler in his place (1941) Soviet short film

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My parents after they eloped 1947. Arlington, Virginia.

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Two students in their dorm room at the University of Illinois, 1910

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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)

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"Just popping out for a chat" - 1982

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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 21 days ago
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By Nick Anderson, 2019.

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My wife found this photo from us dating in 1994

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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.

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