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  16th October, 1946. Hermann Goering lay dead after committing suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill he smuggled into his cell, 2 hours before he was due to be hung. Photo by Edward F. McLaughlin.

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  Dukakis in search of a running mate (1988)

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  In the 1920s-30s Alfred Cheney Johnston was hired by theatre producer Florenz Ziegfeld to photograph the showgirls from his theatre (otherwise known as the Ziegfeld Follies) – the results are absolutely exquisite and this one example. (640×800)

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  ‘Brothers, We Are United,’ Russian political cartoon, 2014.

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  My grandpa in his 20s. My grandma told me he was the most handsome man she has ever met.

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  Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov. Left: 1980 (declared KIA). Right: 2013 (found living as a healer in Herat). He had forgotten the Russian language entirely.

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  If This Muslim Woman Offends You, You Are A Bigot, Racist, Sexist, Islamphobe (2017)

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  Three Generations || An Australian-Aboriginal family whose photograph was used in a project by the Australian government to show how Aboriginal people can be assimilated into white Australian society by ‘breeding out the colour’, 1947.

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  This is Katherine McHale Slaughterback, otherwise known as Rattlesnake Kate. She fought off 140 rattlesnakes in 1925 using just three bullets and a “No Hunting” sign. (1024×601)

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  Adolf Hitler’s Walther PP (.32 ACP), a 50th-birthday gift from the Walther family in 1939, features gold inlays and ivory grips. It sold to a private collector in 1987 for $114,000 and is now estimated to be worth millions.

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  The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, photographed in 1917.

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  Tell Her You Love Her, That’s All She Need to Know! 1943.

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  Irish mother posing with her 7 children, circa 1900. Crisp glass negative

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  Auschwitz guards having a good time (1944) (1023×682)

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  ‘Uncle Sam is a man of strong features’ — American illustration (1898) showing Uncle Sam’s face made up of various nationalities and races.

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  The USN’s Constellation-class frigate – now reportedly reduced to just two ships, with the other planned frigates being axed.

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  FBI agent delivering $1,000,000 to a plane hijacker, in his underwear, 1972

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  Hitler says goodbye to Mussolini (they will never meet to again) Germany, 1944.

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  2022 pro-choice American political cartoon accusing opponents of abortion of not caring about children after birth.

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  ‘New paradise for children, China and Japan will forever be close.’ Poster depicting a Chinese mother and child welcoming Japanese troops to occupied Beijing (c. 1937)

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