German tennis player Karsten Braasch and the Williams sisters, which he defeated in a match that took place because of the sisters’ boast that they would beat any man players except the top 200. The German drank two shandy before the match. 1998

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Rare 1950’s photo of Vasily Blokhin, Joseph Stalin’s head executioner, in old age. Having personally killed tens of thousands of people in his career, including 7,000 Polish officers in under a month during the “Katyn Massacre,” Blokhin was the most prolific murderer in human history. (538 X 800)

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