A whale carcass explodes on a beach in Florence, Oregon, on Nov 12, 1970. It had been packed with dynamite in an effort to dispose of it. Chunks flew as far as 800 feet, and one piece crushed a car nearby. - History Education Network

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A girl tying on a wish on a fox statue at an Inari shrine. Japan, 1932

Joseph Taborsky hugs his mother after his exoneration from death row. He spent 4 years on death row for a 1950 murder before his conviction was overturned. Just over a year later, Taborsky murdered 5 people and confessed to the 1950 murder. He was executed in 1960 (Connecticut, 1955) .

A photo of Ora Ralph Thomas, an Illinois sheriff’s deputy during the Prohibition Era. In 1925, Thomas, who also led an anti-Klan paramilitary, was assassinated by three Ku Klux Klan members. He shot and killed all three of his own murderers before collapsing from his injuries .

A whale carcass explodes on a beach in Florence, Oregon, on Nov 12, 1970. It had been packed with dynamite in an effort to dispose of it. Chunks flew as far as 800 feet, and one piece crushed a car nearby.

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