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Portrait of a young girl living at the Jewish orphanage in Sosnowiec. (1946)

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Marilyn Monroe admired Abraham Lincoln and considered him a father figure, even keeping a portrait of him in her home. 1954

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"WE SHALL RETURN" 1984 Argentine nationalist propaganda poster

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Raffaella Carrà, the first woman to show her belly button on Italian television in 1970

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Beginning in 1932, Oskar Speck kayaked 50,000km over seven years from Germany to Australia. Just three weeks before his arrival in Australia, Germany invaded Poland. Upon his arrival, he was congratulated, then arrested by Australian police and spent the duration of the war in a POW camp

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Little Girl Loves Her New Puppy 1950

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Dalton Prejean with his son at Angola Prison shortly before his execution for killing a state trooper when he was 17. In 2001, Dalton Prejean Jr. killed his 14-month-old stepson. He is serving a 60-year sentence at the same prison where his father was executed, Louisiana, 1990 .

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Anne Frank's Father Otto, Revisiting The Attic Where They Hid From The Nazis. He Was The Only Surviving Family Member (1960).

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My grandma (1964)

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“Radical leaders prey on the fearful and naive” US billboard by the Tea Party movement (2010)

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Crowd of angry parents hurl insults at 6 year-old Ruby Bridges as she enters a traditionally all-white school, the first black child to do so in the United States South, 1960.

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A German teenager of the Hitler Youth distributes grenades to civilian troops of the Volkssturm. Some men carry anti-tank weapons, others outdated rifles. This was part of the Third Reich’s final stand of defense against the approaching Soviet Army. (1945)(652x693)

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