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19 year old Lt. Edwin "Lucky" Wright of Champaign, Ill, shows an 8” hole in the propeller of his P-47 Thunderbolt which was made by flak while on his 39th mission over Münster, Germany. This was the 6th time "Lucky Wright" was hit by flak. (1944)

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Mug shot of Al Capone taken by the Miami Police Department. May 1929

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German students publicly burn “non-German” writings and books, gathered on the central boulevard “Unter den Linden” in Berlin on May 11, 1933.

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United Airlines stewardess in 1970.

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A crowd looks on as a man uses a chair to beat the body of a hanged student just outside Thammasat University. The 6 October 1976 massacre was a violent crackdown by Thai police and lynching by right-wing paramilitaries against leftist protesters who had occupied Bangkok's University

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Henry Kissinger shakes hands with Mao Zedong as Gerald Ford watches, December 2nd of 1975

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Burlesque dancer Lili St Cyr, 1950s. .

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London's first black police officer, PC Norwell Roberts, on point duty near Charing Cross Station, 1968.

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Rebecca, Charley, and Rosa – enslaved children who were considered 'black' under the one drop rule. These children were from New Orleans, Louisiana. 1863

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Anarchist black guard militia mobilizing in either Moscow or St. Petersburg in 1917

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Kim Jong Il with famous South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee and her husband, director Shin Jeong-gyun, who were kidnapped in 1978 on his orders and were forced to make North Korean films. In two years they made 17 films, some of them were well-received outside North Korea (3984x2241)

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