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Freed Ottoman soldiers who were tortured and mutilated during the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War (the 10th Russo-Turkish War since 1676) and the French newspaper Le Monde Illustre who published the photograph. Photographer is Basile Kargopoulo.

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A 116-year-old U.S. Civil War veteran on his deathbed with a cigar in his teeth. Houston, Texas, 1959.

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Today we have been married 40 years. This is our engagement photo, note the perms and my porn mustache.

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Drunk Soviet worker tries to ride on hippo (Novokuznetsk, in Kemerovo, 1982)

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This is Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov, the Soviet ethnographer who deciphered the Mayan writing system, 1980.

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2008: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao from the Shadows of Mao series, by Huang Zhong Yang.

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Groom and bride smile at a wedding in South California, 1956. Kodachrome slide.

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U.S. Soldier picking up the corpse of a dead Viet Cong soldier, 1960s

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German soldiers hang teenagers suspected of aiding Soviet soldiers, 1942

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This is Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov, the Soviet ethnographer who deciphered the Mayan writing system, 1980.

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Vaudeville comedian Egbert Austin, or "Bert" Williams with and without blackface make-up, 1921

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My grandma and her grandma at Disneyland in 1959

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