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‘Oh, what a pleasure to be a German SA boy!’—Austrian anti-Nazi propaganda alleging that the Nazis were homosexuals, early 1930s

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