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Since you all loved my dad in LA 1974, here he is in Latvia, c. 1910
Posted 23 days ago
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Moe Howard of The Three Stooges show how they performed slapstick without hurting each other.
Posted 23 days ago
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Hampton Lee, 24, Hugh Evans, 22, and Willis Evans, 18, are taken into custody for harassing a woman returning home from a party late at night, beating her male friend unconscious for trying to intervene, then kidnapping, robbing, and gang-raping her (South Carolina, September 22, 1940) .
Posted 23 days ago
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Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen covered in paint by a protester over Iraq invasion involvement. (2003)
Posted 24 days ago
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Launch of the James Caird lifeboat from Elephant Island on April 24th 1916. Ernest Shackleton and five others would journey over 800 miles to rescue the 22 trapped on the Antarctic island.
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Orson Welles signaling for silence inside CBS's radio studio while directing the infamous "War of the Worlds" radio show that numerous sources claimed lead to mass panic due to most listeners tuning in late and the show itself having no commercial breaks (October 30th, 1938)
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New York City was the scene of a massive celebration after the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945
Posted 25 days ago
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