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

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Assassination of Socialist leader Inejirō Asanuma by anti-communist Otoya Yamaguchi, Japan, 1960

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More than a 100,000 Iranian women take to the street to protest against the newly formed Islamic government’s compulsory hijab ruling, 8 March 1979

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"Can Black People and White People work together to defeat our common enemy?"—Antisemetic poster, 2023

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My 23rd birthday was a surprise. 1976

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John Wayne as Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror," filmed in the Utah desert, 137 miles from the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Wayne and many cast/crew died of various cancers years later. St. George, Utah. 1954.

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Ser Oswald Mosley on the ground after getting punched by an anti-fascist protestor, Ridley Road, London, 1962

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Malawi mother with her chubby baby, 21 of July 1968

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My mother was beautiful. 1960

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A 41-year-old Winston Churchill commanding the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1916, after resigning from the government .

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Obama's red line in Syria (2013)

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Mother and daughter pose in Edmonton, North-West Territory Canada, 1900s

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A member of the Fallschirmjäger (Nazi paratrooper) is confronted by local villagers on June 2, 1941, following the Battle of Crete. Many Cretans went into battle with only household items in lieu of weapons. Several paratroopers were knifed and clubbed to death.

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