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  A refugee carrying his cholera-stricken wife away from the fighting during the Bangladesh War, 1971.

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  A Frenchwoman, believed to have been a prostitute, has her head shaved by French civilians to publicly mark her for reportedly collaborating with the Nazis (August 29, 1944)

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  Adolf Hitler meets a group of Hitlerjugend in the chancellery garden during his last public appearance on camera. He would kill himself a little more than a month later (20 March 1945)

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  Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Al St. John, 1918. Once his deadpan persona became established, Keaton avoided smiling in front of a camera.

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  My dad in 1954. He is still traumatised by that hairstyle 70 years later.

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  A Chinese tin worker carrying ingots at a British smelting plant in Malaya, 1941 .

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  My grandparents 1934

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  My late mother – circa 1950

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  The waist gunner of a B-29 Superfortress watches a trio of North American P-51 Mustang escorts flying close-in during a bombing mission over Japan, 1945

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  ”Spoiled youth: you better get married soon!” Soviet Union, 1979

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  ”Turkish secularist propaganda poster” From 1930’s to 1940’s

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  My Gg-grandfather with daughter, pic taken 1901 in Western Montana.

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  Franklin Roosevelt chilling on a Gulf of Mexico fishing trip, 1937.

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  “Notice To All White Citizens: Stop Buying Ford Cars And Trucks” USA, 1960s

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  Indonesian President Sukarno (right) formally handing power over to General Suharto (left) 1966. Suharto had killed hundreds of thousands of dissidents & effectively worked to overthrow him behind the scenes for months. He went on to rule for 32 years & acquired a $15-35 billion fortune (1024×682)

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  American elections. Soviet Union, 1970s

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  18 year old GI John Wauthier with his BAR near Bütgenbach Belgium, January 1945. He survived the war and married Ursula Ann Hoffman, they had ten kids together. John passed away at the age of 71 on Nov 7, 1997 and is buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Cecil, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

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  “For Great Britain all races and peoples are equal”, Italy, 1944

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  ‘Try to negotiate with THAT!’ — British cartoon from the Second World War (May 1940) criticising anti-war activists. Drawn by Philip Zec for the Daily Mirror.

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  A photo of the aftermath of the Sétif and Guelma massacre. Immediately after the end of the war in Europe, the French embarked on a mass killing of Algerian independence protesters. Ironically, the massacre started on V.E. Day. Overall, 6,000 to 30,000 people were killed, 1945 .

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