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The Terror of War, also known as Napalm Girl, is a photograph taken on 8 June 1972. It features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Trảng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops.

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George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party at a 1967 rally. He was later assassinated by a disgruntled fellow Nazi

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Family portrait: Mother giving a bright smile while holding her little baby, Father looking dapper and dignified besides his family, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1902

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“Nazi Germany has no place among the civilized nations” American anti-Nazi protest in Los Angeles after the Kristallnacht pogrom, 1938 (1300x1029)

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TIME Magazine Covers - 1996 and 2017

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Theda Bara in the lost movie Cleopatra, 1917 (850x1250)

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1975. My 4th birthday All but three of us have passed

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Diana Princess of Wales, funeral procession, 6 September 1997.

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Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman behind the scenes of The Addams Family, 1991.

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Amon Göth, the Austrian SS commandant of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, preparing to shoot prisoners from his balcony, German occupied Poland, 1943 (1600x1132)

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My dad’s NY chauffeur’s licenses issued in (top to bottom) 1960, 1956, and 1950. He was 27, 23, and 17 respectively

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FLOOD POLITICS-2017 cartoon made in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey mocking transphobia.

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