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  ‘The atom shall work for peace, for communism!’ USSR, 1976

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  ‘An Awful Blot’ — American cartoon (ca. 1914) showing Uncle Sam standing next to a map of the US blotted with ‘Child Labor’.

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  ‘The Hooded Man’ a prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison with wires attached to his fingers, standing on a box with a covered head. 2003

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  (1977) Grandmother (Left), Great-Grandmother (Middle), and Aunt (Right).

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  LightBoy for use with Nintendo Game Boy (1990)

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  The last public execution by guillotine. June 17, 1939 at Versailles France.

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  ‘Difficult Problems Solving Themselves’ 1879, showing a black family moving west, while a Chinese immigrant moving east

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  Argentine dentist Ricardo Barreda during his trial on August of 1995 for the 1992 murders of his wife, two daughters, and mother in law in the city of La Plata. He committed the murders with a rifle after reportedly being insulted. He was released from prison in 2011.

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  2002 Venezuelan mural featuring Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, and Muammar Gaddafi.

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  1938. Tourists drinking tea at the top of the Great Pyramid

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  A happy Hitler with happy children, 1936

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  Joy White stands next to the empty crib meant for her newborn daughter. Her baby, Carlina, was 19 days old when she was kidnapped from a hospital in Harlem, New York. The girl was found alive over 20 years later, 1987 .

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  Husband’s Great Grandmother- Bessie Shirley. Clarksville Arkansas area, around 1912-1914

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  Louis Armstrong serenades his wife at the Sphinx. Egypt 1961 (1303×1007)

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  Hélène Brabander, resistance fighter, murdered in Auschwitz. January 23rd, 1943. (3480×1597)

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  “Why we must have a League of Nations” American cartoon about Germany not being allowed in the new League of Nations after WW1 (1919)

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  Parisian mothers cover their children from German snipers 1944

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  Soldiers of the Swedish Landstorm guarding the coast, Furuskär, ca. 1916

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  One of the only known photos of Subha Talfah, the mother of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taken sometime in the 1950’s or 60’s. Subha unsuccessfully tried to abort Saddam before he was born. (594×424)

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  Percy Fawcett, who disappeared 100 years ago today and was never seen again whilst on an expedition into the Amazon Rainforest looking for a lost city he referred to as “Z”. May 1925,.

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