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Zhang Xueliang, the last surviving Chinese warlord, with his wife in Hawaii, 1990s. In 1936 he became notorious for kidnapping Chiang-Kai-Shek & forcing him to ally with the Chinese communists against the Japanese. He was later imprisoned by Chiang for over 50 years & died in 2001 at 100 (1349×1048)
Turkish comic mocking Italy – 1939
A prison guard holds an iced drink as he watches inmates pick cotton at the Cummins Unit prison farm, the site of a former slave plantation, in Grady, Arkansas. As of 2001, inmates there harvest corn, cotton, and rice from the fields and are supervised by prison guards on horses, 1975 .
Join the free world // Russia // 2015
Exactly 50 years ago, Manson Family member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme attempted to assassinate US President Ford in Sacramento, CA (September 5, 1975). This Newsweek cover shows her moments after her gun failed to fire.
Mummified skull of one of the Polish officers murdered by the soviets. Damage to the skull could be inflicted by the impact of a pistol bullet. Katyn, Poland, 1943.
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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.
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” 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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