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A Vietnamese teenager buttons up her mother’s blouse after she was sexually assaulted by American GI's. They were gunned down moments after this photo was taken. My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 16 March 1968.

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The American Nazi 1958

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Mother and her two daughters walking down the street in Lwów, Poland (now Ukraine), 1930s.

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Mom & I in 1969, she’s been gone 25 years today

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Nancy Wake (code name, Hélène) was the most decorated Allied servicewoman of WWII. She parachuted into France to assist the Resistance, and was known as "The White Mouse" by the Gestapo for her ability to evade capture, 1940s

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Seto groom and bride at their wedding in Värska, Setomaa, Estonia in 1912.

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Presidents Kennedy, Eisenhower, and Truman at Eleanor Roosevelt’s funeral. November 10, 1962.

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«Germany 30 years after…» Political cartoon by Patrick Chappatte, 2019

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Cleaning house 1960s

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Volcanologist David A. Johnston, pictured 13 hours before he lost his life during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. He was the first to report the eruption from an observation post 6 miles away, transmitting "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" before being overtaken by the blast

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Some of the 300 to 500 people who tried to lynch a black teenager charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. The lynching was foiled when Tennessee National Guard troops shot and stabbed dozens of the attackers, four of them fatally, after tear gas proved ineffective (Shelbyville, 1934) .

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Destitute family, 1936

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