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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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  Farmers hang nooses at a foreclosure auction to intimidate outside bidders. Michigan, 1936. (891×599)

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  Roman Catholic priest Johann Nepomuk Kühberger, who as a four-year-old saved a boy his age who had fallen into the icy waters near the small town of Passau. According to locals, this boy was Adolf Hitler. Photo from the 1950s.

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  The Moment when Hitler declared war on the USA 1941, December 11th

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  The first ever photograph of a woman taken in 1839, of Dorothy Catherine Draper. Her daguerreotype portrait is the only surviving contemporary photograph of someone wearing the 1830s poke bonnet, a pre Victorian hat

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  2012 Mitt Romney US presidential campaign billboard featuring the United States national debt and calling for spending cuts.

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