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Competing posters in the New York City subway, circa 2012.

Posted 23 days ago
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Pakistani dictator Yahya Khan dying under house arrest, late 1970's. in 1971 Khan presided over the Bangladeshi genocide, in which the Pakistani military murdered & raped hundreds of thousands of its own citizens. After years of extremely heavy drinking, Khan had a stroke & died in 1980 (1300x852)

Posted 23 days ago
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1985 trailer park family

Posted 23 days ago
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Grandma enjoyed a smoke and a drink after dinner in the 1960s

Posted 23 days ago
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A photo taken of Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger shortly before he was sent to a concentration camp for child molestation. Dirlewanger was later freed due to his Nazi Party connections and placed in charge of a Waffen-SS unit composed mainly of convicted murderers and rapists (Germany, 1934) .

Posted 24 days ago
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The serbian Black Hand terrorist group which later assasinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. 1911-1915.

Posted 24 days ago
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Operators on a switchboard 1960s

Posted 24 days ago
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Suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem being escorted by South Vietnamese soldiers, just moments before his infamous execution, which was caught on camera. Saigon during the Tet Offensive, February 1968.

Posted 24 days ago
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"Some have no comment" (Dana Summers, 1988)

Posted 24 days ago
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Soviet officials view the remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov after the Soyuz 1 crash, USSR, April 1967

Posted 25 days ago
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Drivers license in 1974

Posted 25 days ago
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in 1991 Bernie Sanders delivered a speech to an empty U.S congress, advising against military intervention in the Gulf War.

Posted 25 days ago