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  My 3rd great grandmother pregnant with her first baby in 1899. To me she is the most beautiful woman ever❤️

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  Winston Churchill firing a Thompson submachine gun during a military demonstration in the United Kingdom (1940)

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  Hiroshima, Japan, 1945: This shadow that seems almost drawn on the white of five steps, tells the last moments of a person. All that remains is the shadow caused by the flash of the atomic bomb that August 6th.

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  Life Magazine 1947, ‘The Most Beautiful Suicide’, Evelyn McHale at the bottom of the Empire State Building.

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  Christer Pettersson arrives at his apartment outside Stockholm, Sweden, in 1989 after the appeals court freed him from his life sentence and conviction for the 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme

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  Horatio Robley, seated with his collection of severed heads (1895)

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  HQ 2nd Battalion 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment w/a member of the Dutch Resistance with annotations. Vicinity of Stanggas, Bischofswiesen, May 1945.

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  What Christmas looked like 105 years ago- children around a Christmas tree, Washington D.C. , 1920.

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  Christmas Dinner at Grandma’s House in the Country, 60 Years Ago Today, December 25, 1965

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  Unknown Chinese containership carrying containerized rotating AESA radar, VLS cells, CWIS, rocket/decoy launchers and other sensors.

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  Two local farmers working in a field in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan, 1992

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  W. Wilson Goode gives a victory sign after voting in the Philadelphia mayoral election in 1983. He became the city’s 1st black mayor. As mayor, Goode ordered an airstrike on a mostly black neighborhood, destroying nearly 4 city blocks, killing 6 children, and leaving 250 people homeless .

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  A family poses in front of a 1,341 year old Sequoia tree nicknamed “Mark Twain” that was felled in 1892 after a team of two men spent 13 days sawing it in the Pacific Northwest. The giant tree was 331 feet tall (100 meters).

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  ‘Afghanistan’ By Etta Hulme (1983)

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  My grandmother, 1950s

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  President Eisenhower arriving at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan 1959

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  Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev laughing while rubbing the stomach of an American farmer during a state visit to the United States, Iowa 1959

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  The booking photo of Helen Spence, 18, after she murdered the man on trial for murdering her father and raping and murdering her stepmother. She later murdered another man for sexually harassing and threatening her. Helen was the inspiration for Mattie Ross in True Grit (Arkansas, 1931) .

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  Jacques Cousteau and his crew in a submersible during the Conshelf II Expedition in the Red Sea, 1963.

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  A newly born lamb snuggles up to a sleeping boy, 1940

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