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

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Seven women getting their photo taken jokingly dressed as men. Photograph taken in a photo studio in Visby, Gotland, Sweden in the 1890s.

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Obama Syria red line cartoon (2013)

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19th-century Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho, 1880's. One of the biggest crime bosses in Japan & one of the richest, most powerful men in the entire country. He had powerful ties to the Japanese government during both the Shogunate & the Meiji restoration (1307x1300)

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Kodachrome shot of a couple dancing in a small juke party, South Carolina, 1956

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My parents in the around 1955

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View from the Window at Le Gras, the world’s first permanent photograph. Taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in France, 1826.

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2004: Thai English textbook depicting a Thai and Caucasian foreigner

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A German photographer took photos of Indians in 1920s

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American deserters being publicly humiliated during World War I, France, 1918 .

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My Gran and her sister in rural Alabama early 1940s

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Andy Warhol was shot by a radical feminist in 1968. The bullet bounced around inside him hitting his stomach, spleen, liver, esophagus & lungs

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Dustin Honken was an Iowa chemistry student who used his newfound knowledge to become a meth kingpin. In 1992, he enlisted his best friend, moved to Arizona, and borrowed $5,000 to buy chemicals and equipment. Within a year, the two managed to produce several pounds of nearly pure meth .

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