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"Tradition" — a cartoon by Osmani Simanca, 2015
Posted 17 days ago
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A young Bosnian woman holding an AK-47. Smokes a cigarette as she waits for a funeral service in Sarajevo (1992)
Posted 17 days ago
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106 year-old William Casby holding his great-great-granddaughter. He was born into slavery in Danville, Virginia in 1857, worked as a longshoreman, and lived to be 113, photograph by Richard Avedon, 1963
Posted 18 days ago
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Ann Hodges was the only human being in recorded history to be hit by a meteorite 1954 in Sylacauga
Posted 18 days ago
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The Soviet Union flag is lowered and the Russian flag is raised over the Kremlin. December 25, 1991.
Posted 18 days ago
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Exhaust U.S. Army nurse Amy Stuart, 5th MASH unit in Saudí Arabia naps on a cot while hugging a teddy bear sent by her family during Operation Desert Storm feb, 22, (1991).
Posted 18 days ago
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"Divorce Leads Children to the Worst Places" Iranian Cartoon by Behrouz Firoozi, 2013
Posted 18 days ago
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My gggg-great grandmother. Today is her 174th birthday. She died in 1912 from gangrene of the limb. I don’t know when exactly this photo was taken.
Posted 19 days ago
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Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt, being carried away after a car bomb explosion near his house in Beirut aimed at his life on January 12, 1982.
Posted 19 days ago
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