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Photo of American troops landing in the beaches of Normandy in Omaha beach during Operation Overlord, 1944.
‘In 1917, the Winter Palace – In 1959, the moon’ — Soviet illustration (1959) celebrating Soviet progress
Central Bath House on 11 Cossack Lane, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1900’s Photograph by Carl Bulla
ROK Navy and JMSDF conduct bilateral SAREX southeast of Jeju Island for the first time in nine years after the radar lock-on incident
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Two of the eighteen Allied POWs rescued by the USS Queenfish (SS-393) from the sunken Rakuyo Maru on September 17, 1944.
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When former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years’ back pay as proof of good faith. The letter has been described as a rare example of documented ‘slave humor’ of the period. Below is Jourdon Anderson’s Letter.
A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .
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My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635×861)
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