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

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George Carlin's mugshot after being arrested in Milwaukee following his performance of "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television", 1972. (460x311)

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Soviet cartoon from the Second World War (1942) showing a concerned Goebbels inspecting soldiers at the front while holding a propaganda image of a cheery soldier behind his back. Artist: Kukryniksy.

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The last photo of former U.S president Dwight Eisenhower,alongside Richard Nixon in the hospital in 1969(815x519)

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Some old parenting tips from a found photo

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Exodus 1947 - Jewish holocaust survivors arriving in Haifa (Palestine). Their banner reads: ‘The Germans destroyed our families and homes - don’t you destroy our hope’

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Picture of “Congolese men holding cut-off hands” captured by Alice Seeley Harris in Baringa, May 1904.

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1963: "Brotherhood and equality for all nations!" Soviet Union.

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A Family Picnic, Lincoln, NE, c. 1913. Smithsonian Archives.

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A housewife poses with $12.50 worth of groceries for the week in 1947. It was enough to feed herself, her husband, their four-year-old twins, and the family cat.

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Ridiculously handsome couple in Texas, 1941

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My mom, far left, and the neighborhood kids enjoy an afternoon treat. 1934

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A French trench raider with a revolver and dagger in 1916

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