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My mother, 20, posing in her white satin gown on her wedding day. 1947
The ‘Sea Greyhound’ that couldn’t turn: The French cruiser Jurien de la Gravière. Built in 1899 to be the ultimate predator, she had a 2km turning circle and vibrated so much she nearly shook herself apart.
My great grandfather and his daughters Texas 1930s
A victim recovered after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, 1912.
Future WWII hero & French president Charles De Gaulle with his daughter Anne in the 1930’s. Anne was born with down syndrome but was never institutionalized, as was common at the time, & lived with her family until the end of her life. She died of pneumonia in 1948 at the age of 20 (1310×900)
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My family enjoying a picnic by a river in West Virginia ~ 1910
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Life Magazine 1947, ‘The Most Beautiful Suicide’, Evelyn McHale at the bottom of the Empire State Building.
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.
Franceska Mann (1917-1943) was a courageous Jewish dancer. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Jewish dancer Franceska Mann began to perform a striptease. When the guards asked her to remove her clothes, she took advantage of one of their distractions to steal his weapon and shoot him dead.
Winston Churchill firing a Thompson submachine gun during a military demonstration in the United Kingdom (1940)
My 3rd great grandmother pregnant with her first baby in 1899. To me she is the most beautiful woman ever❤️
The American flying ace Lt Col Louis Edward Curdes, who shot down planes from all three Axis powers as well as one American. Philippines, 1945
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