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Two Japanese Imperial Marines who committed hari-kari by shooting themselves rather than surrender to a U.S. Marine. Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. 1943.
Raymond Theodore Robinson, a disfigured man from Pennsylvania, became an urban legend due to his nighttime walks. At age eight, in 1919, he was severely injured by an electrical line while climbing a pole, losing his eyes, nose, and right arm.
French civilians made a memorial for an American soldier who died liberating France from Nazis. Carentan, France. June 17, 1944.
1945 poster
Riga police assault group in 1908.
”Restating Russian Religion” – American cartoon published in ”The Grand Forks Herald” (artist: Stuart McDonald), November 1961
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“Colonial” Living Room Furniture from the Sears catalog, 1975
The expression on the exhausted face of Captain Francis Fenton of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines after he was told that his overwhelmed company was nearly out of supplies and ammunition but that they were ordered to keep fighting the North Koreans at No Name Ridge. September 1950.
Lepa Radic, a 17 year old Serbian girl about to be hanged. She was asked by the Nazis where her accomplices were to which she replied, “You’ll Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.” (1943)
cease fire signature – North Korea 2009
Police arrest a Falun Gong demonstrator at Tiananmen Square, October 12, 2000. At least 300 people protesting the ban of Falun Gong were arrested on the square that day, making it the largest demonstration at Tiananmen Square after 1989.
One of the only known photos of Mexican general & president Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna, 1853. Known in the US for his role at “the Alamo” & notorious in Mexico for coming to power 11 times & losing over half of Mexico to the US in 1848, some regard him as the worst man in Mexican history (816×1154)
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