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Bass Reeves, the formerly enslaved man who became the first Black deputy US Marshal west of the Mississippi and arrested over 3,000 outlaws in the American West
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German Major Josef Gangl taken by an American photographer on May 4, 1945. The following day, he was killed while shielding former French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud, fighting alongside American soldiers and French prisoners against SS forces.
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At "A Party of Richard Pryor" James Brown brought Eddie Murphy on stage to ask him one question, "Can you really do James Brown?".
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Polish flag riddled with bullets in the last days of the Warsaw Uprising, 1944, Zbigniew Brym
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Rare photo of German dictator Adolf Hitler wearing a leather jacket, sometime in the late 1930s.
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February 1st, 1988: A lone parishoner overcome with grief lying on steps to the altar sobbing in her arms after TV evangelist Rev. Jimmy Swaggart's confession of sexual indiscretions during a sermon. (612x404)
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The last King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, around 1960. Zahir ruled the country for almost 4 decades from 1933-73. Remembered as a remarkably lenient king, he supposedly never signed a single warrant approving the execution of a citizen for political reasons during his reign (3258x2503)
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This may be my favorite ancestor photo I’ve found so far. Taken around Los Angeles, circa 1910-1915
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