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W. Wilson Goode gives a victory sign after voting in the Philadelphia mayoral election in 1983. He became the city’s 1st black mayor. As mayor, Goode ordered an airstrike on a mostly black neighborhood, destroying nearly 4 city blocks, killing 6 children, and leaving 250 people homeless .

A family poses in front of a 1,341 year old Sequoia tree nicknamed “Mark Twain” that was felled in 1892 after a team of two men spent 13 days sawing it in the Pacific Northwest. The giant tree was 331 feet tall (100 meters).

‘Afghanistan’ By Etta Hulme (1983)

My grandmother, 1950s

President Eisenhower arriving at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan 1959

London sanitation engineers overseeing new sewer construction following the Great Stink of 1858

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