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Newborn opens their eyes to see their mother, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kodak safety film, 1951

Stop! Or You’ll Be Late For Your Confirmation Hearing, Clarence Thomas Executioner, 1991, Art by Kevin ‘Kal’ Lallaugher for the Baltimore Sun

June 11, 1963: A 67 year old Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc died by self-immolation at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon. He took this ultimate step to protest persecution and discriminatory policies targeting Buddhists by the Catholic led government.

Renty, a slave, looks into the camera for a daguerreotype (early photograph) in Columbia, South Carolina. c. 1850.

Tutankhamun’s Tomb, with disassembled chariots, December 1922. (1000×749)