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Raúl Pellegrin, a Chilean exile and guerrilla leader trained by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, who fought in Nicaragua, and illegally returned to Chile to fight the Pinochet regime. He was captured by Chilean authorities in 1988 and tortured to death. Circa 1984.
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Pfc. Robert A. Vincent, L.I., N.Y., offers K rations to Okinawan children, found in Gusukuma during the drive to Machinato airstrip, May 1945.
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My Oma in the aftermath of WWII. Her uncle was shot and her father was sent to an internment camp for criticizing Hitler and the Third Reich. She was 18 in this photo (1952)
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South African Riot Police playing soccer with youths in Nyanga Township, Western Cape Province. 27th August 1976.
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Bruce Springsteen in 1970 at 20 years old, unaware that one day he'd sell 164 million records and win 20 Grammys.
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Sergeant John Peter Bailey, Company F of the 6th Ohio Cavalry, dies at the home of his parents in Newton Falls, Ohio. Postmortem photograph taken with his father Reuben, March 1865.
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My maternal grandfather in the heart of the Mississippi Delta during the mid-1950s.
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Controversial New Jersey high school principal Joe Louis Clark, 1980's. Clark became famous for his disciplinarian approach to education. He was portrayed by Morgan Freeman in the 1989 film "Lean on Me." (2500x1793)
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A photo of the gallows at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center shortly before they were demolished in July 2003. Prison officials were forced to erect the gallows in 1986 after a death row inmate insisted on choosing the method, an option granted to him under Delaware law .
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Salvador Dalí wearing a deep-sea diver's suit at the London Surrealist Exhibition. He nearly suffocated when he attempted to deliver a lecture whilst wearing the suit and holding two hounds on a leash. He had to be eventually released from his helmet with a spanner (1936)
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