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  Moroccan police commissioner Mustapha Tabet hangs his head at his trial. With the protection of other cops, Tabet kidnapped, assaulted, and raped at least 518 women and girls, albeit he might’ve had 1,200+ victims. It remains the worst police corruption scandal in the country, 1993 .

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  1991: Bernie Sanders warns empty Congress against U.S. military action in Gulf War

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  Mural displayed by Chinese officials during a diplomatic conference at Yalta, 2013. The image, designed by Chinese artist Shi Xinning, shows a version of the famous ‘big 3’ conference at Yalta with Mao inserted into it

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  My grandma at 7 years old (1941-2006)

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  Last photograph of Elvis Presley,(1977) taken just after midnight hours before his death on August 16th .

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  ‘Far-right parties, lobbying for the interests of Russia in Europe’. Early 2010s map warning about Russian influence in Europe.

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  Victims of a Soviet-perpetrated massacre in Yerevan, Armenia during the suppression of the February Uprising of 1921

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  My mother in the early 1930s. She would be 100 yrs old today.

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  A South Vietnamese woman crying over a plastic bag containing the remains of her husband, he was found in a mass grave of non-combatants murdered by Communist forces during the Tet Offensive. His body was found a year later, in April 1969. Photo taken by Larry Barrows.

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  “The First Day of War” Soviet civilians in Moscow listen to the radio announcement that Germany has invaded the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941 (1590×1200)

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  1865 portrait of Brigham Young, 2nd president of the Church of Latter-day Saints, founder of Salt Lake city & the first Governor of Utah. Young had 57 children with 56 different wives (5624×4242)

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  My grandmother and father (late 1940s)

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  My mom (front, right side) and her siblings in the late 60s/early 70s

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  Two communions and a confirmation – circa 1927 – My grandfather in the middle

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  Japanese and German children sing songs during a Hitler Youth trip to Japan, 1938 (928×1300)

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  Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635×861)

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  My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY

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  NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)

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  A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .

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  When former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years’ back pay as proof of good faith. The letter has been described as a rare example of documented ‘slave humor’ of the period. Below is Jourdon Anderson’s Letter.

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