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On May 10th 1973 a man entered a bank in Kenora Ont. armed with a rifle and a ‘dead man’s switch’ connected to a bomb in his mouth. He was shot leaving the bank, activating the switch, detonating the bomb. His identity remains unknown.
15-year-old African American student Dorothy Counts starts the school year at Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, amid protests, screams, and insults from White people who were against school integration, on September 4, 1957 .
‘Basement with supplies’ — USSR, 1973s.
The inside of a cell where an inmate was killed during the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot. During the riot, inmates, who’d obtained blowtorches, went to the protective custody unit, where they began using them, first on the doors, then on inmates, who were seen as ‘snitches’, 1980 .
Mom (Estelle) at 16, high school year book photo, 1951, Manhattan, NY
A girl sorting pearls. Japan, 1949
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“The sky of the motherland is safely protected” Recruitment poster for the Soviet Air Defense Force( 1984 )
Poor Vietcong soldier vs rich South Vietnam soldier, South Vietnam’s leaflet. Vietnam war, date unknown.
My great-grandparents, unfortunately remembered for being vain and image-obsessed
My grandfather in Vietnam, 1968
” Whistle-blower in Moscow” – political cartoon made by Lebanese-Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chappatte (”The International Herald Tribune”), June 2013
A whale carcass explodes on a beach in Florence, Oregon, on Nov 12, 1970. It had been packed with dynamite in an effort to dispose of it. Chunks flew as far as 800 feet, and one piece crushed a car nearby.
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