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Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston at a Radiohead concert, 1998

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A woman from Hiroshima showing her back where her skin is burned in a pattern of the kimono worn at the time of the explosion, 1945

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My grandmother dressed in period garb, I don't know why. Salem Ma. 1927

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An X-ray of the pelvis of Albert Fish reveals needles he had inserted into his pelvic area for pleasure.The X-ray was taken in 1936 at Bellevue Hospital in New York.

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'Stalingrad' — Czech anti-Nazi print (1943) showing Goebbels delivering a speech with the German war dead lined up behind him. Artist: Antonín Pelc.

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A newspaper man after US President Franklin D. Roosevelt died - Photo taken by a young Stanley Kubrick, which started his career at Look magazine. (April 1945)(1200x1510)

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Baby kissing his mama in 1921. (Toledo, Spain)

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Benito Mussolini posing beside a bust of himself,1926 (600×443)

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George W. McLaurin in 1948, segregated from the rest of his class at the University of Oklahoma. (768x576)

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I can't get enough of this wonderful 1933 portrait of my dad's parents and sisters

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"This, my Führer, is the new uniform for our armies in Italy” British satire on the German invasion of Italy (1943)

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US President Jimmy Carter collapsing while running a 6 mile race at Camp David, 1979. He had to be carried off the track but quickly recovered. (3000x2013)

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