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Marilyn Monroe's first husband was James "Jim" Dougherty, a 21-year-old factory worker whom she married on June 19, 1942, at age 16 to avoid returning to an orphanage. They were neighbors in California, and the marriage lasted four years before they divorced in 1946.

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Terrible beach accident 1950s

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Serial killer Carroll Cole, 47, prepares to light a cigarette as he talks with a reporter three days before his execution (Nevada State Prison, 1985) .

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Patrick Chappatte editorial cartoon on the growing surveillance state, 2020

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"No German customers wanted here until Hitler returns Czechoslovakia!" - a poster placed in the window of a Somerville restaurant by its Czech owner. USA, March 18, 1939.

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Grigory Berman finds the bodies of his wife and children, killed by Nazis from Einsatzgruppe D. Crimea, January 1942.

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Love is love

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No one wants to remember the horrors of war. Poland, Warsaw, 1946.

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A traffic jam at the Brandenburg Gate between East and West Berlin on the first Saturday after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 11, 1989.

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2 men look with bright smiles at a sleeping baby, New York, 1940.

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"I'm going to finish you off soon". Pornographic Japanese propaganda poster from Russo - Japanese war, 1904/1905. NSFW!

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U.S. Marines in Hue during the Tet Offensive, 1968

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