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Marianne Bachmeier in 1981 after she shot the Rapist/Murderer of her young daughter during his trial, inside the courtroom. 6 out of 7 shots hit the guy, double tap in the head.

Posted 17 days ago
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17 year old anti-fascist resistance fighter Albina Mali-Hočevar in 1942.

Posted 17 days ago
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2 friends have some fun inside the photobooth, circa 1950s.

Posted 17 days ago
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Ho Chi Minh, revolutionary and North Vietnamese leader, poses with German sailors aboard a ship in Straslund harbor, during a visit to East Germany. July 27, 1957.

Posted 17 days ago
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A young girl with her toy stroller in Odessa, Ukraine(1985)

Posted 18 days ago
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Me at the age of 3 years old in 1973

Posted 18 days ago
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Political cartoon by David Horsey, Los Angeles Times, Circa 2017.

Posted 18 days ago
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Pacific War veteran Howard Auld, 25, sits between two cops shortly after his arrest for murder. He'd went after a waitress after dancing with her at a V-J Day party. When she spurned his advances, Auld beat her unconscious, raped her, and left her to die in a cistern (New Jersey, 1945) .

Posted 18 days ago
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Raquel Welch on the set of One Million Years B.C. - 1966

Posted 18 days ago
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Captured around 5:00 pm, nine hours after the Hiroshima detonation, a Japanese wounded police man, his head wrapped in bandages, is seen distributing rice ration certificates to atomic bomb survivors. August 6, 1945.

Posted 18 days ago
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My grandmother and my mom in 1958

Posted 19 days ago
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28 January 1986. Onlookers witnessing the Challenger explosion shortly after take off.

Posted 19 days ago