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My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .
When former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years’ back pay as proof of good faith. The letter has been described as a rare example of documented ‘slave humor’ of the period. Below is Jourdon Anderson’s Letter.
‘Victorian Child’ photo I found in an antique shop. I fell in love with how awkwardly perfect this photo is. I would really like to learn more, but I don’t know where to start.
Gorbachev and Bush about to share a meal on board the Soviet cruise ship “Maksim Gorkiy” in Marsaxlokk, Malta. Shortly before the declaration of the end of the Cold War. 2 December 1989
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“Back to school” (September 1, 2016) – a caricature published in the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox newspaper Yated Ne’eman, comparing a student of the state-secular education system to a student of the Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) religious education system.
Manute Bol, the tallest man in the NBA, defending the hoop in the college, 1980s.
“Nobody is born gay” USA, 2014
Testing the guns on a North American B-25 Mitchell
«Change Russia, start with Moscow» a poster calling for voting for Alexei Navalny in the Moscow mayoral election, 2013.
Young future Russian oppositionist Alexey Navalny, 2000 .
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