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56 years ago today- these 4 students at Kent State University in Ohio were shot and killed during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by US military forces, as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus and the draft. May 4, 1970
The British battleship HMS Duke of York heading to sea on the 23 September 1948.
German Major Josef Gangl taken by an American photographer on May 4, 1945. The following day, he was killed while shielding former French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud, fighting alongside American soldiers and French prisoners against SS forces.
Caricature of Chairman Mao Zedong as a Chair man, Gerald Scarfe, 1971
Polish flag riddled with bullets in the last days of the Warsaw Uprising, 1944, Zbigniew Brym
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  • 11 Feb 1911: Melbourne Zoo’s lion, Wallace, rented by a magician performing at the Melbourne Opera House, walked offstage and out of the theatre. He took shelter in the T&G Buildings, 400 metres from the theatre. After two hours he was coaxed into a cage and returned to the zoo.
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  • Go Home Negro Circa 1960
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  • My dad and mom and me. 1957.
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  • Georgi Zhukov, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and other Soviet officers greeting Bernard Montgomery and other British officers at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, 12 Jul 1945
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  • The corpse of Pope Pius IX after being exhumed in 1956
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  • Hundreds of B-17 Flying Fortresses awaiting the scrap heap, 1946.
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  • ‘Death – to the murderous Jewish Bolshevik plague!’ (Ukrainian anti-Semitic/ anti-Soviet poster by unknown artist. Nazi occupied Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, ca. 1941).
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  • Anti-American propaganda, North Korea. 1950s
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  • “God. Nation. Labour. Glory to Russia” Poster of biggest(up to 25000 members at its peak) neo-nazi group from Russia — Russian National Unity. 1990s.
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  • January 20th, 1945, the first 4 units of RAF Gloster Meteor F3 jet fighters arrive in Melsbroek, Belgium to counter a possible threat by German Messerschmitt Me-262. They were all painted white for easy ID, a full squadron would be there by March that year.
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  • “Let Chinese-Soviet Friendship Live Forever!” poster, 1959
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  • A Japanese prisoner of war at Guam, Mariana Islands, covers his face after hearing Hirohito making the announcement of Japan’s unconditional surrender on August 15, 1945
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  • American freedom. Soviet Union, 1960’s
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  • 813th Squadron, England, 1944
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  • Itamar Ben-Gvir, a 19-year-old Kahanist, holds an ornament which he stole from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s car. On live TV, he declared, “We got to his car, and we’ll get to him too.” Weeks later, Rabin was assassinated. Ben-Gvir is now Israel’s Minister of National Security, 1995 .
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  • The disarmament of the Argentines after the defeat in the Falklands War, 1982 .
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  • “Black is beautiful – Communism is not” – Yuri Bezmenov’s 1985 book cover. He was formerly a correspondent for the Soviet Novosti Press Agency, specializing in disinformation for foreign media.
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  • Toronto Maple Leafs player Börje Salming in 1986 with his kitten following an incident in a game on November 26, 1986 where his face was accidentally stepped on and cut by the skate blade of Detroit Red Wing, Gerard Gallant. He required over 200 stitches.
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  • A Japanese leaflet dropped on Allied troops to encourage their surrender, 1942
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  • Brigitte Helm cooling off on the set of Fritz Lang’s ”Metropolis”, 1927.
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