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Central African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa & his wife Catherine during his coronation as ‘Emperor of Central Africa,’ 1977. The ceremony was so extravagant that it cost a 3rd of the country’s entire annual budget to carry out. None of the world leaders invited to the event attended (1920×1080)
Germans removing ruins in front of the Reichstag (1946)
‘Aid to the Starving, American Style.’ Soviet Union, c. 1970s
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and his wife Queen Elena outside their house in Alexandria (Egypt) where they lived in exile, 1947
‘Grandmother with the Soviet flag’, painting, 2022
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Mao and Stalin // Soviet Union // 1952
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Woman with long hair, brushes it off while looking at the mirror, 1880s. Sharp shot.
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‘Russians, Go Home!’ Hungary 1956
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Warren Nutter, 19, reads a letter from his mother. He was one of the youngest men sentenced to death in Iowa. After his sentence was commuted to life in prison, he became one of the longest serving inmates in the country. Nutter served 65 years at the Iowa State Penitentiary, 1957 .
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80 years ago today, Desmond Doss was injured by a grenade on Okinawa – May 21, 1945
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Tsarist Russia – a prison of nations. The predatory aspirations of tsarist imperialism. (Map to Lenin’s teaching on imperialism) USSR 1936
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McDonald’s Chopped Beefsteak Sandwich and Onion Nuggets (1978)
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These are the nuclear test mannequins used in the 1950s to test the effects of atomic blasts on humans (1000×640)
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My grandad and great grandad
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Kodak disc camera (1982)
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Sergeant John Peter Bailey, Company F of the 6th Ohio Cavalry, dies at the home of his parents in Newton Falls, Ohio. Postmortem photograph taken with his father Reuben, March 1865.
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Don’t walk on fish, USSR, 1920
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1960s political cartoon by Joaquin de Alba Carmona, describing Francisco Franco and Antônio de Oliveira Salazar as the ‘old men of Iberia’.
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7up Glasses at Pizza Hut – May 1976
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Mossad agnt Eli Cohen, who managed to infiltrate the Syrian ruling elites, is being publicly hanged in Marjeh Square. Damascus, Syria. May 18, 1965
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Salvador Dalí wearing a deep-sea diver’s suit at the London Surrealist Exhibition. He nearly suffocated when he attempted to deliver a lecture whilst wearing the suit and holding two hounds on a leash. He had to be eventually released from his helmet with a spanner (1936)
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‘England’s Shame’ — Nazi anti-British illustration, 1939.
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Little girl poses with a dog that stays still despite the ear pull, circa 1900s
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Soviet cartoon of the conflict in Northern Ireland, 1960s.
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1953 – Hunts with a special recipe!
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