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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60 years of NATO (International Herald Tribune, 2009)

The first ever confirmed photo of a Nazi Gas Van. Einsatzgruppen 7a, pictured in this photo, participated in the murders of approximately 134k Belarusian Jews. This vehicle was one of their tools. ~1941

Gourgen Yanikian, a 77-year-old Armenian genocide survivor who lost 26 family members, is arrested after killing two Turkish consuls, both whom were too young to have been involved. Yanikian’s lawyers would portray him as a broken man who’d lost touch with reality, California, 1973 .

David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (Israels first two prime ministers) during their law education in Istanbul University 1912

A man seeking a wife in 1865

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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