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My uncle R (left) and his partner M in the mid-80s

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Gorgeous Streamlined Truck delivered the beer in 1930s

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Thirty years ago today, OJ Simpson told the jury that the gloves used to murder Nicole Brown "don't fit" - June 15, 1995

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Thomas K. Yallup, chief of the Yakama tribe of Washington State, visits his son, training in an M48 Patton at the Yakima Firing Center, 1954

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Lunch Hour in '50s NYC

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The Nuremberg trials. "Did you stand for fascism? You did! Do you sit here for fascism? You do! Now you have to hang for fascism.", USSR, 1945

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Rachmaninoff plays piano for his granddaughter Sophie in 1927, New York

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Photo of a footbridge connecting two walled off Jewish living areas in the Warsaw Ghetto, German occupied Poland, June 1942 (800x513)

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Salvatore Gravano, a hitman for John Gotti, prepares to testify in court. Despite being responsible for at least 19 murders, he would serve less than five years in prison. This came after Gravano agreed to become a key witness against Gotti and others in the Mafia, New York, 1993 .

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U.S. Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton near Shuri, Okinawa - June 14, 1945

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Illustration depicting the reunification of Germany published on the cover of The Spectator magazine, 24 February 1990

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My mom and her date to junior prom, circa 1974

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