''GORBACHEV CROSSINK THE VOLGA - MIKHAIL'S NAVY'' - American cartoon (made at the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists Convention) parodying Emanuel Leutze's ''Washington Crossing the Delaware'', circa 1990 - History Education Network

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The body of Leander Shaw after his lynching. Roughly a dozen people scaled the rear walls of the jail, took Shaw from his cell, dragged him to a plaza, and hanged him from an electric pole. Shaw was then shot over 500 times (Florida, 1908) .

Guided missile cruiser USS Columbus (CG-12) on sea trials, December 1962

The Maiden, a child found frozen on the volcano Llullaillaco in Argentina, The photograph was taken shortly after her discovery in 1995

‘Our sea!’ – Turkish poster 1945

Pakistani dictator Yahya Khan dying under house arrest, late 1970’s. in 1971 Khan presided over the Bangladeshi genocide, in which the Pakistani military murdered & raped hundreds of thousands of its own citizens. After years of extremely heavy drinking, Khan had a stroke & died in 1980 (1300×852)

”GORBACHEV CROSSINK THE VOLGA – MIKHAIL’S NAVY” – American cartoon (made at the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists Convention) parodying Emanuel Leutze’s ”Washington Crossing the Delaware”, circa 1990

Categories: 1900s

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