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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)

“South Tyrol, Don’t Forget It!” Austrian poster about the Italianization of South Tyrol under Benito Mussolini, showing a Roman soldier and an enslaved Germanic man (1920s)

‘Try to negotiate with THAT!’ — British cartoon from the Second World War (May 1940) criticising anti-war activists. Drawn by Philip Zec for the Daily Mirror.

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