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  February 1990 cover of National Lampoon, anticipating the inevitable Japanese takeover of the US

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  My mom, 1936.

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  A victim, tied in a tortuous position to the side of a truck, is about to be dragged to his death by Fascists during the Yekatit 12 massacre in Italian East-Africa (19 February 1937)

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  Execution of Hisao Tani labelled the ‘Demon King’ of the Nanjing Massacre by the Chinese, 26 April 1947.

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  ‘Hail Caesar! Those who are about to die salute you’, Allied flyer dropped over Italy, quoting the ancient Roman gladiatorial greeting and depicting Mussolini as Hitler’s puppet while Italian soldiers march off towards Russia, Libya and death, 1942

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  ‘Why That Interpreter’. Cartoon by Reg Manning, 1965.

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  My mom, 1930.

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  Wounded French soldiers participating in drills inside the Grand Palais to prepare to return to active duty. (1916)

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  PLAN ships commissioned in 2025

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  ‘These shameful deeds: your fault!’, US propaganda poster issued in occupied Germany immediately after WWII, meant to confront the population with Nazi atrocities and foster collective guilt as part of the denazification process, 1945

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  15 year old Mary Vincent in 1978, spirit unbroken after she was brutally tortured by a Serial Killer who cut off both her arms and threw her off a 30 ft. Cliff. She packed her stumps with mud, climbed the cliff back up and walked for miles naked towards the nearest hospital.

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  Orphaned Child-Soldier Hans Georg Henke after being captured by the allies in 1945.

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  Greek armored cruiser Georgios Averof. Fought the ottomans twice in the First Balkan War in Elli (1912) and Lemnos (1913). Today it’s a floating museum ship in Athens.

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  Muamar Gaddafi and 2 of his elite Bodyguards from the all -female ‘Amazonian Guard’ in the early 2000s.

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  Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson at Lincoln’s second inauguration on March 4th, 1865. A drunken Johnson had earlier delivered one of the worst speeches in history.

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  28-year-old Jenny Joseph posing for the Columbia Pictures logo in 1992

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  The American flying ace Lt Col Louis Edward Curdes, who shot down planes from all three Axis powers as well as one American. Philippines, 1945

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  My 3rd great grandmother pregnant with her first baby in 1899. To me she is the most beautiful woman ever❤️

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  Winston Churchill firing a Thompson submachine gun during a military demonstration in the United Kingdom (1940)

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  Franceska Mann (1917-1943) was a courageous Jewish dancer. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Jewish dancer Franceska Mann began to perform a striptease. When the guards asked her to remove her clothes, she took advantage of one of their distractions to steal his weapon and shoot him dead.

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