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Mose Wright takes the witness stand and points to Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, identifying them as the two men who kidnapped and lynched his 14-year-old nephew Emmett Till, Mississippi, September 21, 1955 .
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Dr Raymond Martinot standing at the freezer containing the body of his wife preserved by self-made cryonics, in 1993. He was also frozen at his death, but following a failure of the temperature control system, their bodies were finally cremated. (1260x700)
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1924 Pic of Kid stealing air from a Car's Spare Tire to fill his football in Washington DC
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Croatian Ustaše guards laughing while covered in human blood from people they killed, Independent State of Croatia, 1941 (622x900)
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Liberated prisoners of Dachau camp beat a camp guard with a shovel (April 29. 1945)
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The gate through which the Goths of Alaric stormed and sacked Rome in 410. Porta Salaria, 1870, just before being demolished. (640x500)
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Polish school teacher, Wladyslaw Bielinski moments before his execution (1939). In the first months of WWII, the Third Reich attempted to wipe out Poland's intellectual class, executing 60,000 people. They knew the "intellectual elite" would stop the regime from seizing complete control
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"Homosexuality is a mental illness", Hungarian street poster in anime style from 2021
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Mom (Estelle) about 15 or so in 1950 Manhattan, babysitting the neighbor’s kid while puffin’ away
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