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Decolonization of Africa, USSR, c. 1959
‘Look, he’s eating it!’, Soviet Union, probably 1980s
My grandmother grew up above her father’s Corner Market in San Francisco, California during the Great Depression. She would always tell me “We were poor, but we didn’t know it. Because everybody was poor in our neighborhood, and we had ice cream, and candy from Daddy’s Shop. So we didn’t know.”
Thérèse of Lisieux dressed up as Joan of Arc. The only photograph of a canonized Saint cosplaying as another Saint. (c. 1897)
The Situation in the Far East 2022
French 340mm railway gun firing, Spring 1940.
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A women steps out of a DC-2 Mexicana de Aviacion (Mexicana) plane (Oaxaca, Mexico c1952)
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1967 Press Photo The Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
Ali Maow Maalin, the last known person in the world with smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery (Merca, Somalia 1977)
“The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Isherwood (DD-520) steams off Ie Shima, during the fighting there in mid-April 1945.” Original color WWII photo of artillery shells hitting Japanese positions on the island of Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa, April 1945.
Peasant children lined up for food hand during the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. The consensus is that around 30 million people died in the famine. The famine was caused by communist policies during the failed Great Leap Forward economic campaign and natural disasters.
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