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  Ricky Ray Rector, an effectively lobotomized death row inmate, sits at his clemency hearing. To prove how ‘tough on crime’ he was, Bill Clinton returned home to preside over his execution. Rector left behind a pie from his last meal, saying he was saving it for later (Arkansas, 1992) .

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  USS Bremerton (SSN 698) visits her namesake city in 1986. A Washington State Ferry and dozens of civilian craft escort the attack boat.

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  My grandparents circa 1948

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  Moments before the famous flag raising on Iwo Jima, 1945.

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  A ‘Schienenzeppelin’ (rail zeppelin) alongside a steam train – at a railway station in Berlin, Germany, c. 1931.

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  Japanese map published at the start of the Second World War, ca. 1939.

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  Iranian students celebrating the victory of the Islamic Revolution, holding a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran, February 1979

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  ‘Western Hemisphere 1941’ // Italy // 1941

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  USS Oriskany (CV-34) is scuttled off Pensacola, Florida, 17 May 2006

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  February 1990 cover of National Lampoon, anticipating the inevitable Japanese takeover of the US

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  My mom, 1936.

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  A victim, tied in a tortuous position to the side of a truck, is about to be dragged to his death by Fascists during the Yekatit 12 massacre in Italian East-Africa (19 February 1937)

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  Execution of Hisao Tani labelled the ‘Demon King’ of the Nanjing Massacre by the Chinese, 26 April 1947.

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  ‘Why That Interpreter’. Cartoon by Reg Manning, 1965.

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  My mom, 1930.

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  PLAN ships commissioned in 2025

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  15 year old Mary Vincent in 1978, spirit unbroken after she was brutally tortured by a Serial Killer who cut off both her arms and threw her off a 30 ft. Cliff. She packed her stumps with mud, climbed the cliff back up and walked for miles naked towards the nearest hospital.

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  Muamar Gaddafi and 2 of his elite Bodyguards from the all -female ‘Amazonian Guard’ in the early 2000s.

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  Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson at Lincoln’s second inauguration on March 4th, 1865. A drunken Johnson had earlier delivered one of the worst speeches in history.

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  28-year-old Jenny Joseph posing for the Columbia Pictures logo in 1992

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