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February 28th, 2001 - final lap of the Daytona 500, the cars of Dale Earnhardt and Ken Schrader's sliding into the grass after striking the turn four wall - Earnhardt was killed instantly upon hitting the wall.
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DEA agent Steve Murphy sitting over the body of drug Kingpin Pablo Escobar after the final rooftop showdown, this would go on to decrease world cocaine import and export by 80%. December 2 1993
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Mrs. S.J. Bonner and her 2 boys, all 3 work in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Ga. She earns $3.50 a week. Boys together earn $4.90 a week. Husband died when they lived on a farm. (National Child Labor Committee by Lewis Hines) Macon, Ga, 1909.
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"The Dens of Death," part of the infamous crime-ridden slum in New York City known as the Five Points. Photo by Jacob Riis, 1872.
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Turkish Army Captain Süleyman Pulat and his adopted daughter who he named Seul, Korea, 1951.
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Cult leader & sex trafficker Dwight York, founder of the "Nuwuabian Nation" among other black supremacist groups, 1998. In 2002 he was arrested on charges of child molestation & convicted in 2004 of more counts than anyone in US history. He may have fathered over 100 illegitimate children (1280x720)
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"This is the Barbecue we had last night.. my picture is to the left with a cross over it.. your son Joe". Postcard of the lynching/burning of William Stanley at Temple, Texas, 1915. Joe Meyers marked the back of the postcard to show his parents he was in the crowd.
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The car of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow was found to have weapons and ammunition upon their demise in 1934 .
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Eleven-year-old Joe Roach is chained to his bed in his home in Houston. The boy said that he'd spent the night before sleeping in the doghouse in his backyard rather than going into the house to be mistreated. His parents appeared in court. 27 August 1954
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Footage that is thought to be of Taliban founder Mullah Omar (4th from left) taken surreptitiously by the BBC in 1996. If authentic, it would constitute only the fourth known image of Omar ever captured. (2048x1536)
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Ernest Hemingway on safari in Kenya with his 4th wife Mary in 1953. Soon after this the two would survive a pair of plane crashes in the span of just 2 days. (1280x1267)
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John Howard Griffin posing as a black man in the Deep South as part of an experiment to see life and segregation from the other side of the colour line. He later published a book about it titled Black Like Me, 1959
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