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A girl and her cat in her family's kitchen in San Antonio, 1939

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Back in the 1950s, kindergarten naptime was a non-negotiable.

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A Pennsylvania State Trooper warns a driver trying to nap on the side of the road that a possible serial killer has been targeting sleeping truckers around Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. Three truckers had been robbed and shot, two of them fatally, August 1953 .

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Pearl Harbour, Italian poster, 1941

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An American Civil War soldier and his best friend, c. 1860s

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Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he became a U.S. citizen in September of 1983

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German soldier returns home from war only to find his house in ruin and his family perished. Frankfurt, 1946.

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Iranian soldier Hassan Jangju during the Iran–Iraq War 1980, ( 13 years old ), He was declared missing in action in 1984, and his body was returned to Iran in 2017.

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Me with my first dog, Tippy, 1957

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The remains of astronaut Vladimir Komarov, who perished during a space mission, 1967. Soviet military officials view the remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov.

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"Surpass the UK within fifteen years" (China, 1958)

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This is the first-ever photograph of a surgery, taken in 1847 in Boston

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