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My grandparents at the beginning of their long (but mostly unhappy) marriage (1950s)
Posted 21 days ago
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A filipino survivor of the Manila massacre, shows where a Japanese officer tried to behead him, 1945.
Posted 22 days ago
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Joe Arridy, the "happiest prisoner on death row", gives away his train before being executed, 1939
Posted 22 days ago
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Ernst Röhm and Adolf Hitler inspecting the Sturmabteilung in 1933, Röhm is considered to be the first widely recognized gay political figure in the world.
Posted 22 days ago
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3 girls strolling past two British soldiers keeping watch for snipers after a spate of rioting in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (1981)
Posted 23 days ago
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In 1946, soviet children gifted a carved great seal replica to the us ambassador, unknowingly hiding a listening device called ‘the thing.’ It was found in 1952 during a counter-surveillance sweep.
Posted 23 days ago
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Jaques Biederer, the first photographer in history specializing in erotic photos. This photo was taken in Paris in 1928.
Posted 23 days ago
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