Ali Maow Maalin, the last known person in the world with smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery (Merca, Somalia 1977) - History Education Network

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A US Air Force Douglas A-1E Skyraider drops a white phosphorus bomb on Viet Cong positions in South Vietnam in 1966.

‘Protect yourself from this menace’ — Anti-KKK poster issued by the Industrial Workers of the World, ca. 1921. ‘The Ku-Klux-Klan is anti-Jew, anti-negro, anti-Catholic, anti-foreigner AND anti-labor. Organize industrially. Line up! Join the I.W.W.’

A Polish woman holding a photo of her killed husband at the opening of a Katyn Massacre Memorial in London, 1976 (459×640)

‘March 16, we choose’ Propaganda poster supporting Crimea’s annexation, portraying Ukraine as Nazis prior to the 2014 referendum

Samuel Sheinbein, an Israeli-American citizen who in 1997 killed teenager Alfredo Enrique Tello, Jr. in Maryland. Sheinbein fled to Israel, which refused to extradite him to the U.S. Sheinbein was killed in 2014 in an Israeli prison

Ali Maow Maalin, the last known person in the world with smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery (Merca, Somalia 1977)

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