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  Harold Jones, 15, wears a gold watch gifted to him to celebrate his acquittal in the murder of a young girl. After his acquittal, he had been welcomed back to his home town with cheers from the locals. It turns out Jones was guilty. He killed another young girl weeks later, Wales, 1921 .

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  German Soldiers Marching through the streets of one of the British Channel Islands. 1940 (1200×800)

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  “A small state threatens Germany” Nazi era map portraying Czechoslovakia being hostile to Germany (1934)

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  Teacher John T. Scopes stands in the courtroom during his trial for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in his high school science class. 1925 (750×500)

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  Mao and Stalin // Soviet Union // 1952

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  Woman with long hair, brushes it off while looking at the mirror, 1880s. Sharp shot.

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  ‘Russians, Go Home!’ Hungary 1956

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  Warren Nutter, 19, reads a letter from his mother. He was one of the youngest men sentenced to death in Iowa. After his sentence was commuted to life in prison, he became one of the longest serving inmates in the country. Nutter served 65 years at the Iowa State Penitentiary, 1957 .

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  80 years ago today, Desmond Doss was injured by a grenade on Okinawa – May 21, 1945

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  Tsarist Russia – a prison of nations. The predatory aspirations of tsarist imperialism. (Map to Lenin’s teaching on imperialism) USSR 1936

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  McDonald’s Chopped Beefsteak Sandwich and Onion Nuggets (1978)

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  These are the nuclear test mannequins used in the 1950s to test the effects of atomic blasts on humans (1000×640)

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  My grandad and great grandad

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  Kodak disc camera (1982)

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  Sergeant John Peter Bailey, Company F of the 6th Ohio Cavalry, dies at the home of his parents in Newton Falls, Ohio. Postmortem photograph taken with his father Reuben, March 1865.

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  Don’t walk on fish, USSR, 1920

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  1960s political cartoon by Joaquin de Alba Carmona, describing Francisco Franco and Antônio de Oliveira Salazar as the ‘old men of Iberia’.

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  7up Glasses at Pizza Hut – May 1976

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  Mossad agnt Eli Cohen, who managed to infiltrate the Syrian ruling elites, is being publicly hanged in Marjeh Square. Damascus, Syria. May 18, 1965

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  Salvador Dalí wearing a deep-sea diver’s suit at the London Surrealist Exhibition. He nearly suffocated when he attempted to deliver a lecture whilst wearing the suit and holding two hounds on a leash. He had to be eventually released from his helmet with a spanner (1936)

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