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The Parade of the Vanquished

A photo of inventor Franz Reichelt just before his death after jumping off the first deck of the Eiffel Tower, 187 feet or 57 meters above ground (February 4th, 1912) .

In 1939, during the Winter War, Finnish soldiers positioned the frozen body of a Soviet soldier as part of psychological warfare.

The skull of King Charles XII of Sweden, 1917

The evolution of British postal uniforms, from 1840 (left) to 1940 (right)

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My grandparents’ wedding photo right before he was shipped off. Their wedding was 10/07/1944. My grandmother hand tinted the photo herself
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An anti-Communist Romanian civilian aims his PSL rifle during the Romanian Revolution, Bucharest, December 24, 1989.
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HMAS Ballarat (FFH 155) conducts a replenishment at sea with HMNZS Aotearoa during Exercise Bersama Lima 25. Oct 4, 2025
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Mugshots of six defendants in the Mount Rennie rape case. Twenty men and teenage boys had gang raped a 16-year-old servant girl in New South Wales. These six were among the 10 to be found guilty. It was the only gang rape in the region at the time to result in any convictions, 1886 .
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Photograph taken during Leonid Kulik’s expedition (1928)to the site of the Tunguska Event, which occurred twenty years earlier on June 30th, 1908, likely an explosion caused by a mid-air burst of an asteroid, the most significant impact event in recorded history.
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Grandmother on a longhorn, 1950s
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«Onwards with the organic growth campaign» Ethiopian Mural of Marx, Engels and Lenin, 1970s
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Grace McDaniels and her son, Elmer, photographed in the early 1940’s. Grace was born a with rare condition known today as Sturge–Weber syndrome, but went on to have a lucritive career with Harry Lewiston’s Traveling Circus. (500×331)
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Almost everyone owned one of these
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My grandmother and her older brother, mid 1940s
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Vietnam resistance fighter wearing mask to hide their identity in a private meeting of the VietCong 1972 (4444×4444)
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German single-engine Messerschmidt Bf-109 light fighter with its ‘desert’ camouflage, over Libya, 1942.
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Makeshift Hospital in the Deep Swamp of Vietnam 1970’s (4444×4444)
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These were a staple for everyone back in the 70s
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Chinese chairman Mao Zedong swimming in the Yangtze river in Wuhan, China, 1966
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1947 bakeries improve your standard of living (incl clothing)
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Mildred’s Place: 1938 by John Vachon
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Shot of 3 children from Viena , Virginia, circa 1912. Like the throne like maner the little girl is sat
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Kevin Smith protests his own movie Dogma, November 12th 1999 Eatentown New Jersey.
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‘Symbol of fascism’ — Anti-fascist design by German artist John Heartfield, 1928
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