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My wife and her sister (in yellow) circa 1972 in northern Italy.
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Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet seated next to Imelda Marcos, wife of Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, at the funeral of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, 1975 (1338x1228)
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After 84 years, historians finally identified the Nazi soldier in this WWII photo known as “The Last Jew in Vinnitsa,” solving one of WWII’s biggest photographic mysteries. It was a former teacher named Jakobus Onnen. 1947
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Mrs. Daisy Herbert makes a delivery for her husband's New Jersey ice business. Date uncertain, but around 1930. We often forget how recently things like modern refrigerators became commonplace in people's homes.
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The commander of an M48 Patton tank looks through his lens, Vietnam war 1967 (1069x1600)
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A Polish resistance fighter checks her hair after a German air raid during the Warsaw Uprising, September 1944
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A mother grieves by the body of her son who was shot and killed in the Tiananmen crackdown. June 4th, 1989.
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In 1970, troops from the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed people at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others
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