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  “An American Marine, in foreground, still clutches the knife with which he killed the Jap, in background, in a duel on Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll. A moment after finishing off his adversary, a sniper’s bullet killed the Marine.” ca. Feb 1944.

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  One of the only known photos of Mexican general & president Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna, 1853. Known in the US for his role at “the Alamo” & notorious in Mexico for coming to power 11 times & losing over half of Mexico to the US in 1848, some regard him as the worst man in Mexican history (816×1154)

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  Police arrest a Falun Gong demonstrator at Tiananmen Square, October 12, 2000. At least 300 people protesting the ban of Falun Gong were arrested on the square that day, making it the largest demonstration at Tiananmen Square after 1989.

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  cease fire signature – North Korea 2009

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  Lepa Radic, a 17 year old Serbian girl about to be hanged. She was asked by the Nazis where her accomplices were to which she replied, “You’ll Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.” (1943)

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  The expression on the exhausted face of Captain Francis Fenton of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines after he was told that his overwhelmed company was nearly out of supplies and ammunition but that they were ordered to keep fighting the North Koreans at No Name Ridge. September 1950.

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  “Colonial” Living Room Furniture from the Sears catalog, 1975

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  Anti Racist Poster UK Circa 2000s

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  My second Birthday! This day 66 years ago!

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  “Babies on bayonets”—Atrocities being committed by the occupying Japanese forces against Chinese citizens

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  My first day with Stayfree. 1970s

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  “An Unrestrained Demon” – Anti- electricity propaganda from 1889.

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  “Hitler election poster”

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  My grandparents, married 1953. She passed today at 91 and is now with him again.

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  The beach on Guadalcanal in 1951, six years after WWII ended. (LIFE Magazine Archives – Howard Sochurek Photographer)

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  12 year old anti-child labor speaker, Iqbal Masih from Pakistan, who was forced into slave labor at a carpet facory at age 4, jubilates as he is introduced as one of five recipients to receive a Reebok Human Rights Award, Dec. 7, 1994, in Boston. He would be murdered 4 months later.

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  ”The fists of the Allies breaking the Nazi swastika”, France, 1945

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  Ice Cream on Cream Of Wheat (1956)

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  ”Make way for corn!” Soviet Union, 1960s

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  “Some Still Call Him Pig”, US, 1960-70s

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