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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)
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Italian sculptors, including the young Angelo Zanelli standing besides the completed statues that are about to be placed on the Vittoriano/Altare Della Patria monument in Rome, early 1900s.
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Tsarist Russia – a prison of nations. The predatory aspirations of tsarist imperialism. (Map to Lenin’s teaching on imperialism) USSR 1936
80 years ago today, Desmond Doss was injured by a grenade on Okinawa – May 21, 1945
Warren Nutter, 19, reads a letter from his mother. He was one of the youngest men sentenced to death in Iowa. After his sentence was commuted to life in prison, he became one of the longest serving inmates in the country. Nutter served 65 years at the Iowa State Penitentiary, 1957 .
‘Russians, Go Home!’ Hungary 1956
Woman with long hair, brushes it off while looking at the mirror, 1880s. Sharp shot.
Mao and Stalin // Soviet Union // 1952
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