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W. Wilson Goode gives a victory sign after voting in the Philadelphia mayoral election in 1983. He became the city’s 1st black mayor. As mayor, Goode ordered an airstrike on a mostly black neighborhood, destroying nearly 4 city blocks, killing 6 children, and leaving 250 people homeless .
A family poses in front of a 1,341 year old Sequoia tree nicknamed “Mark Twain” that was felled in 1892 after a team of two men spent 13 days sawing it in the Pacific Northwest. The giant tree was 331 feet tall (100 meters).
‘Afghanistan’ By Etta Hulme (1983)
My grandmother, 1950s
President Eisenhower arriving at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan 1959
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Georgi Zhukov, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and other Soviet officers greeting Bernard Montgomery and other British officers at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, 12 Jul 1945
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Swedish weightlifter rejoices after successfully lifting weights at the Olympic Games in Montreal, 1976 .
A German soldier is about to shoot a Jewish man in Vinnytsia. 1941. The victim is sitting on the edge of an excavation with many dead bodies inside. This image is titled “The last Jew in Vinnitsa”. Vinnitsa, Ukraine
Josiah Harlan, Prince of Ghor an American born in Pennsylvania who travelled to Afghanistan with the intention of making himself a king. He failed. (1838-1845)
Capitalism: I’m sorry, but I don’t see poverty in our free world. // Soviet Union // 1960s
Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders so he could save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they arrived when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Grüninger was later fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension.
“The Republican is the Platform of the Negro”-1861
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