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A photo of the aftermath of the Sétif and Guelma massacre. Immediately after the end of the war in Europe, the French embarked on a mass killing of Algerian independence protesters. Ironically, the massacre started on V.E. Day. Overall, 6,000 to 30,000 people were killed, 1945 .
Categories: 1900s, War
A 1943 short film, titled “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” depicts Donald Duck trapped within the Nazi war machine, forced to work in a munitions factory assembling artillery shells
Categories: 1900s, Racism, War, WW2
Pan fried Nutburgers. Wrigley’ Spearmint Chewing Gum. 1950s
Categories: 1900s
“An American Marine, in foreground, still clutches the knife with which he killed the Jap, in background, in a duel on Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll. A moment after finishing off his adversary, a sniper’s bullet killed the Marine.” ca. Feb 1944.
Categories: 1900s
One of the only known photos of Mexican general & president Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna, 1853. Known in the US for his role at “the Alamo” & notorious in Mexico for coming to power 11 times & losing over half of Mexico to the US in 1848, some regard him as the worst man in Mexican history (816×1154)
Categories: 1800s, USA
Police arrest a Falun Gong demonstrator at Tiananmen Square, October 12, 2000. At least 300 people protesting the ban of Falun Gong were arrested on the square that day, making it the largest demonstration at Tiananmen Square after 1989.
Categories: 1900s, 2000s
cease fire signature – North Korea 2009
Categories: 2000s
Lepa Radic, a 17 year old Serbian girl about to be hanged. She was asked by the Nazis where her accomplices were to which she replied, “You’ll Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.” (1943)
Categories: Racism, WW2
The expression on the exhausted face of Captain Francis Fenton of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines after he was told that his overwhelmed company was nearly out of supplies and ammunition but that they were ordered to keep fighting the North Koreans at No Name Ridge. September 1950.
Categories: 1900s

Vote Remain, Brexit (2016)

Two of the eighteen Allied POWs rescued by the USS Queenfish (SS-393) from the sunken Rakuyo Maru on September 17, 1944.

Kmart Cafeteria Specials 1977

The Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew crying on national television while announcing the separation of Singapore from Malaysia, 1965. (2000×1128)

Adelie penguin stands beside the apartheid-era South African flag, Antarctica, 1966

A photo of the aftermath of the Sétif and Guelma massacre. Immediately after the end of the war in Europe, the French embarked on a mass killing of Algerian independence protesters. Ironically, the massacre started on V.E. Day. Overall, 6,000 to 30,000 people were killed, 1945 .

A 1943 short film, titled “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” depicts Donald Duck trapped within the Nazi war machine, forced to work in a munitions factory assembling artillery shells

Pan fried Nutburgers. Wrigley’ Spearmint Chewing Gum. 1950s

“An American Marine, in foreground, still clutches the knife with which he killed the Jap, in background, in a duel on Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll. A moment after finishing off his adversary, a sniper’s bullet killed the Marine.” ca. Feb 1944.

Police arrest a Falun Gong demonstrator at Tiananmen Square, October 12, 2000. At least 300 people protesting the ban of Falun Gong were arrested on the square that day, making it the largest demonstration at Tiananmen Square after 1989.

cease fire signature – North Korea 2009

Lepa Radic, a 17 year old Serbian girl about to be hanged. She was asked by the Nazis where her accomplices were to which she replied, “You’ll Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.” (1943)

The expression on the exhausted face of Captain Francis Fenton of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines after he was told that his overwhelmed company was nearly out of supplies and ammunition but that they were ordered to keep fighting the North Koreans at No Name Ridge. September 1950.

The first Czechoslovakian president Tomas Garrigue Masaryk on his horse in the head of a morale-boosting military parade on the Wenceslas Square, Prague, held as a celebration of the 15th anniversary of the country’s creation, 28th October 1933.

‘Enjoy life now – There is no afterlife’ (American billboard poster by Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). United States of America, ca. 2019).

An American cartoon of the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, 2021.

One of the oldest known photographs of Red Square. Moscow, 1856.

“Stop the militarization of space” soviet poster, 1984.

Aunt Jemima’s Kitchen Restaurants – 1963 – Disneyland

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A boy carrying oversized pretzels in post-war Germany, 1950s. A symbol of recovery, resilience, and the joy of simple things.