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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)
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World War II war correspondent Ernie Pyle shortly after he was killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet on the island of Ie Shima on April 18, 1945.
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A women steps out of a DC-2 Mexicana de Aviacion (Mexicana) plane (Oaxaca, Mexico c1952)
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1967 Press Photo The Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
Ali Maow Maalin, the last known person in the world with smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery (Merca, Somalia 1977)
“The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Isherwood (DD-520) steams off Ie Shima, during the fighting there in mid-April 1945.” Original color WWII photo of artillery shells hitting Japanese positions on the island of Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa, April 1945.
Peasant children lined up for food hand during the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. The consensus is that around 30 million people died in the famine. The famine was caused by communist policies during the failed Great Leap Forward economic campaign and natural disasters.
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