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‘CARELESS TALK…got there first’, US poster warning against careless talk about military matters and its fatal consequences for the servicemen, made by Herbert Morton Stoops (1888-1948), 1944

5-year-old after day’s work, was tired and refused to be photographed, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1911. Photo by Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee.

Japanese Navy Sakura-class patrol ship. The Japan’s Ministry of Defense plans to acquire 12 patrol vessels.

Protest sign taken at an anti-war rally in San Francisco, February 16, 2003.

Aboriginal prisoners in neck chains guarded by a police officer, Western Australia, 1901.