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“The First Day of War” Soviet civilians in Moscow listen to the radio announcement that Germany has invaded the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941 (1590x1200)

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East German map of West German Ambassadors with previous Nazi German ties (1962)

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East German border guards gaze into West Berlin on November 11, 1989, two days after the Berlin Wall officially came down, ending twenty-eight years of separation.

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My grandparents (right) and her parents, who joined them on their honeymoon

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Cathy Guisewite and her cartoon Cathy, 1982.

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A South Vietnamese woman crying over a plastic bag containing the remains of her husband, he was found in a mass grave of non-combatants murdered by Communist forces during the Tet Offensive. His body was found a year later, in April 1969. Photo taken by Larry Barrows.

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My mom with Santa in 1952

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1865 portrait of Brigham Young, 2nd president of the Church of Latter-day Saints, founder of Salt Lake city & the first Governor of Utah. Young had 57 children with 56 different wives (5624x4242)

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British cartoon about Joseph Stalin ignoring the signs of a German led invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941

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Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635x861)

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I posted my grandpa’s mugshot yesterday. Here’s what he looked like from the front.

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Nazi archeological team in Tibet, spending time with locals, trying to find origins of the "Aryan" race, led by Ernst Schäfer, 1938-1939.

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