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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.

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Jaques Biederer, the first photographer in history specializing in erotic photos. This photo was taken in Paris in 1928.

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My beautiful gramma, who risked her life to save Jewish people, and ended up marrying one.

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Pant Removing ceremony of the Pakistani Army after their humiliating defeat against India (1971)

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A car dealer on the harbour front in Vladivostok Russia 1993.

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"Parasitic Capitalist Class" May - 1938

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My Parents in 1950

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in 1991 Bernie Sanders delivered a speech to an empty U.S congress, advising against military intervention in the Gulf War.

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Hugh Thompson, the hero who stopped a massacre committed by US troops in the Vietnamese village of My Lai by landing his helicopter in the line of fire, 1968.

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Mother waits on the street with her little sleeping baby on one arm and her little girl besides her, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, December of 1941

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In segregated Tennessee of the 1950's, the Memphis Zoo allowed only 'colored people' to enter on Thursday of each week. Photo credit: Earnest Withers (966x724)

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«Incurable disease» Chinese (China Daily) cartoon of NATO, 2022

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