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I just posted my grandma at 17, this is her and my grandpa right after they got married. Absolutely stunning, both of them.

Posted 17 days ago
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A Wehrmacht officer of the 707th Division hangs two Belorussian teenagers in Nazi-Occupied Minsk, photographed during Operation Barbarossa. October 26, 1941.

Posted 17 days ago
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Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust - stands in the yard of Ayalon Prison - in Ramla, Israel, c. April 1961.

Posted 17 days ago
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My mom (age 15) stretching the phone cord for some privacy. St. Louis Park, MN, circa 1959.

Posted 17 days ago
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On this day in 1864, the first Union POWs arrived at Andersonville- a newly constructed stockade in Georgia that would soon become one of the most infamous prisons in US history. Almost 13,000 POWs died here from disease, poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding, or exposure.

Posted 18 days ago
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The 'Hasanlu lovers' died around 800 B.C. and were discovered in 1972 in iran They died in what seems to be an embrace or kiss and remained that way for 2800 years

Posted 18 days ago
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"Tradition" — a cartoon by Osmani Simanca, 2015

Posted 18 days ago
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I'll never be as cool as my grandparents, 1950's

Posted 18 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 18 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 19 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 19 days ago
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My parents on one of their first dates, early 1950's.

Posted 19 days ago