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One of the only known photos ever taken of British Queen Victoria smiling, 1897. Despite her reputation as a serious, humorless monarch (epitomized by the apocryphal quote ‘We are not amused’) those close to her considered the Queen to have quite a sense of humor. (1727×1348)
“Monica was easy, Serbia’s defeat will not be” White House protest sign about Bill Clinton’s sex scandal and his decision to bomb Serbia, March 1999
GE Widescreen 1000 — General Electric’s Performance TV from 1978
Funeral procession for Horst Wessel: beginning of the stylization of the murdered NSDAP and SA member as a “Blutzeuge” (martyr), Berlin, March 1930. (580×405)
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89 year old Winston Churchill leaves the House of Commons for the last time. He was a member of Parliament for 64 years. July 27, 1964.

This is the last known picture of Gauleiter Karl Hanke. This was taken on May 3, 1945, few days before the surrender of Fortress Breslau to the Soviets, when Hanke addressed his staff standing on a supply crate, urging them to continue the fighting. Note that he is no longer wearing a Nazi uniform.

Wehrmacht soldier holding a Panzerschreck on the Western front. Oct 27 1944

1950s street style

We All Got Vaccines, Except Dad

  • My dad and grandma, in their backyard in Montreal, circa 1960.
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  • 1945 Propaganda Posters for the „Liberation” of Czechoslovakia
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  • Rhodesian woman stands next to a sedan, she has a teeshirt saying: “I’m staying, how about you”, Rhodesia, c. 1979 – April 1980.
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  • Date unknown. Anti communist poster.
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  • 1855. Men of 72 Highlanders who served in the Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison and John Harper. Not sure about the resolution. See the body text.
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  • My great grandparents and their children. There were three more yet to be born. My grandmother is the baby on her mother’s lap.
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  • USSR officials attempting in vain to resuscitate the dead crew of Soyuz 11 after it’s reentry. All three crew members were posthumously awarded Hero of the Soviet Union medals and given state funerals, June 3rd, 1971
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  • My great-grandmother’s great-grandfather
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  • Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant who died in Air Battle 1941
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  • Please! Dissent is not a crime! USA 1970
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  • «The feat of the Chernobyl firefighters», USSR, 1987
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  • New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle after being slammed to the ground by a Pittsburgh Steelers lineman in Pittsburgh on Sept. 20, 1964. The photograph immortalized Tittle in football lore as the epitome of the aging warrior who had finally fallen.
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  • Variety packs. Ahh memories….
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  • Fiat G.50 flying over North Africa in formation with a Messerschmitt Bf 110, 1941.
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  • Thank GOD for The Atomic Bomb! (1950’s Pro-Nuclear Weapon Poster)
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  • Young woman wrestles a police officer as he drags her to the car due the early 1920s rules about morality and ‘Bathing suits’, Chicago 1922.
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