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"Smoking is tacky" Brazilian anti-smoking poster by cartoonist Ziraldo, 1986

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German protest against the signing of the Treaty of Versailles at the Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1919 (1100x700)

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A Chinese farmer in front of his oxcart, with his baby in his arms. The photographer noted, “Asked to pose for a photo, this farmer insisted on holding his child for the picture.” Circa 1944

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Me turning 23, 1976

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Soviet soldiers celebrating the victory over Germany at the Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945 (1799x1227)

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"Russian troops root out another Chechen terrorist", with a Russian soldier holding a baby by its leg infront of a city in ruins. 26/10/1999.

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My mom with her parents and siblings accepting the US flag, like so many tens of thousands of US families, for their fallen son/brother who was killed in Vietnam April 1968. Lest We Forget.

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A communist rams a horse rider with his car at the beginning of the Mexican Communist Party's attack on the Gold Shirt parade. An hour-long fight in Mexico City's main square killed three and injured about 50 people. 20 November 1935

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American cartoon from the Second World War (1941) showing Mussolini spending twenty years preparing for war only to complain in 1941: 'We weren't ready!'

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The Storyville Jazz Club, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1952

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A lone Soviet soldier walks away from a grave of his brothers-in-arms on the banks of the Volga, Stalingrad. 478,000-675,000 Red Army troops died in the brutal fighting. February 1943. .

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"We've died 14 years too early, my dear Benito!"- Dutch cartoon showing Hitler and mussolini watching as Franco is welcomed into NATO. Artist: Leo Jordan. (1959)

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