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Nsala of Wala in Congo looks at the severed hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter after failing to reach the Belgian colonisers Rubber quota 1904 (800x554)

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A group removes the body of a dead migrant from a tractor-trailer found near Victoria, Texas. Dozens of migrants had been crammed into the trailer. Nineteen of them perished from the heat and dehydration. It remains one of the deadliest cases of migrant smuggling in U.S. history, 2003 .

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“A Threatening Situation” American cartoon about a potential bigger war in Europe, published durning the First Balkan War (December 1912)

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My parents after their wedding, 45 years ago today.

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Mason Funabiki cuts his farewell cake, before marching for the US Army inside the camp in Wyoming where he and his family were sent for being of Japanese descent. 31 of March 1944

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King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden playing darts with local skinheads, 1992

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Couple posing with their car close to a badminton net, early 1920s.

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Couple posing with their car close to a badminton net, early 1920s.

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My beautiful grandma in 1965. She was 24.

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Antisemitic/anti-communist poster from 1939

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The bodies of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie lie in state after their assassination at Sarajevo, 1914.

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Lovebirds! My newlywed parents at a party ca. 1960

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