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As the ceremonies for the formal surrender of Japan concluded 9/2/45, MacArthur told Halsey ‘Start ’em now’ which was the order for the final display of airpower. Hundreds of carrier-based planes and B-29 bombers filled the sky over Tokyo Bay to punctuate the day’s events.
Yugoslav WW2 Poster – 1945
My mom and her siblings 1940 (she’s the big one holding her sister)
“The whole world looks at you as a force capable of destroying the paving hordes of German invaders – Stalin” Soviet poster during WW2, 1942
After the Fall: A Photo from inside of Hitler’s Bunker, Berlin 1945,
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29 May 1953. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mount Everest.
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‘Evolution of a Russian’ english caricature from the 19th century
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National Parks worker James Hudson uses a cloth-wrapped pole to clean Lincoln’s ear at the Lincoln Memorial in 1987 – Bettmann / Getty
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LADY BE COOL (1974)
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Jarts (1976)
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My great aunt Princess Anastasia Tumanishvili (1900-1917) (picture was taken in the mid 1910s)
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Swedish Sámi Family in front of their traditional dwelling in Skansen. 29th August 1910
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The Lincoln Memorial in 1920.
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Einstein sitting outside a small wooden cottage near Cromer in Norfolk, England. He was the guest of Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, who sits on the ground next to the professor carrying a shotgun. Oliver had offered refuge to Einstein to help him avoid persecution by the Nazis. 1933.
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Racial education class at a school for German girls, 1943
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East Berlin in the late 1980s
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A young Filipino girl is pictured sitting on a wooden bench in an enclosure and ‘displayed’ in Coney Island. New York, 1905.
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A photo of Emperor Menelik II after successfully defeating the Italians & saving Ethiopia from European colonization 1896
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German cartoon (ca. 1931) mocking Ernst Röhm’s homosexuality.
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Fidel Castro with his five-member revolutionary tribunal in a court-martial of a local peasant, 1957.
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Chinese guerrilla fighter Cheng Benhua before execution by the Japanese, 1938
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Kodachrome shot of a 3 generation family being shot while carving a turkey, December of 1956.
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