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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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15-year-old African American student Dorothy Counts starts the school year at Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, amid protests, screams, and insults from White people who were against school integration, on September 4, 1957 .
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‘Basement with supplies’ — USSR, 1973s.
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The inside of a cell where an inmate was killed during the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot. During the riot, inmates, who’d obtained blowtorches, went to the protective custody unit, where they began using them, first on the doors, then on inmates, who were seen as ‘snitches’, 1980 .
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Mom (Estelle) at 16, high school year book photo, 1951, Manhattan, NY
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Jeffrey Doucet is escorted through an airport in Baton Rouge to face trial for kidnapping and raped an 11-year-old boy. On his right is the boy’s father, Gary Plauche. In one of the world’s most infamous cases of vigilantism, Plauche shot Doucet on live TV moments later, Louisiana, 1984 .
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Seventeen-year-old Badí, in custody before his execution at the hands of Násiri’d-Dín Sháh’s guards. His crime was delivering a letter to the Shah. Qajar Iran, 1869.
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Curtis Jones, 12, and his sister Catherine Jones, 13, appear in court after killing their father’s girlfriend. They would be charged as adults. Unsealed documents later revealed that the two were being sexually abused and had resorted to murder when nobody believed them, Florida, 1999 .
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My parents (Frank and Estelle) married 11/24/56, together until the end. Lost both 5/31/25
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Wernher von Braun, director of NASA’s Marchall Space Flight Center, at his office in Huntsville, Alabama 1965.
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According to doctors, women are particularly vulnerable to issues caused by rough toilet tissue… Scott, 1930.
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Soviet wartime propaganda (1944–1945)
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‘We don’t always march straight’ 2018 Swedish Armed Forces Pride Advertisement
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The establishment wig (1968)
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My husbands 3rd great-grandmother. Photo not dated but she was 16 in 1907.
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Carl Newton Mahan plays with a doll during a court hearing after he shot and killed another boy during a fight. At age six, Mahan became the youngest person to ever be tried for murder in American history, Kentucky, 1929 .
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St Paul’s Cathedral during the Blitz, December 29 1940. (1500×1150)
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Industrial workers of the world 1911
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Dr Raymond Martinot standing at the freezer containing the body of his wife preserved by self-made cryonics, in 1993. He was also frozen at his death, but following a failure of the temperature control system, their bodies were finally cremated. (1260×700)
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US Marine 1st Sgt. Bradley Kasal is carried out of a building after a close quarters firefight during the Second Battle of Fallujah (November, 2004)
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Croatian Ustaše guards laughing while covered in human blood from people they killed, Independent State of Croatia, 1941 (622×900)
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