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2021 Russian military artwork blending Orthodox Christian and Soviet symbols
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Queen Elizabeth II moments before Marcus Sarjeant fires six blank shots at her, 1981 (640x490)
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A cotton sharecropper with his family at their home in Hale County, Alabama, 1935
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Mayor of Foča, Hamid Muftić, who was boiled alive in a brandy cauldron by Chetniks in December 1941 and hanged his skeleton on the Džaferbeg Mosque
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A man on the beach is fined for indecent clothing, Heemskerk, Netherlands, 1931
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Gary Kasparov in a chess match against the Deep Blue super computer, the first time a world champion lost to a computer. May 11th 1997.
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A photo of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins with his mother. In 1989, Hawkins was murdered by a mob of as many as 30 white youths who mistakenly thought he was dating a local white girl. Hawkins was one of three black people to be murdered by racist white mobs in New York in the 1980s .
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