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

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Detained bandits and gangsters lie on the ground before interrogation in Yekaterinburg, Russia, 1992.

Posted 23 days ago
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My grandma, about 1948

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The home of civil rights pioneer Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette Moore after being bombed by the Ku Klux Klan on Christmas Day. Both were killed in the bombing. They were the first civil rights activists to be assassinated during the post-war civil rights movement (Florida, 1951) .

Posted 24 days ago
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Home for Christmas, head rammed full of blow. Massachusetts 1985

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Two local farmers working in a field in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan, 1992

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"Wouldn't be trying to divert our attention, would he?" (Ed Holland, 1962)

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President Eisenhower arriving at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan 1959

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Arnold Schwarzenegger in ballet class, as he wanted his body building poses and form to become more graceful, and more in line with the ancient Greek athletes and art he admired, with ballet teacher Marianne Claire, 1976

Posted 25 days ago
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Christmas 1978- these guys are about to have sooo much fun!

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W. Wilson Goode gives a victory sign after voting in the Philadelphia mayoral election in 1983. He became the city's 1st black mayor. As mayor, Goode ordered an airstrike on a mostly black neighborhood, destroying nearly 4 city blocks, killing 6 children, and leaving 250 people homeless .

Posted 25 days ago
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Guy de Rothschild and Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, photographed at the Rothschild Surrealist Ball at the Château de Ferrières, France, December 12, 1972

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"Afghanistan" By Etta Hulme (1983)

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