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These photographs are practically the last evidence of the ‘quiet’ life in Crimea. Exactly one year later, the Crimean Tatar people will be deported. Crimea, 1943 Magnum Photos/Herbert List Estate Creative Commons
“Reunion in Vienna” American cartoon about the German annexation of Austria, March 1938
As the ceremonies for the formal surrender of Japan concluded 9/2/45, MacArthur told Halsey ‘Start ’em now’ which was the order for the final display of airpower. Hundreds of carrier-based planes and B-29 bombers filled the sky over Tokyo Bay to punctuate the day’s events.
Yugoslav WW2 Poster – 1945
My mom and her siblings 1940 (she’s the big one holding her sister)

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  • “The First Lesson” – USSR, 1964
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  • Finnish Bofors 40mm gun crew, Suulajärvi, Karelian Isthmus, 26 August 1943
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  • Coal Miner’s son digging coal from mine refuse on the road side. The picture was taken December 23, 1936 on a cold day when the town was buried in snow. The child was barefoot and seemed to be used to it. He was a quarter mile from his home. Scott’s Run, West Virginia. (WPA- Lewis Hine photographer)
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  • The Unexplainable blinking lights! 1950s
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  • Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders to save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they came when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Grüninger was fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension, 1930s .
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  • “Sex is no accident. Always use a condom”. MTV, late 1980s
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  • Old Spice. 1980.
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  • A cousin of mine was killed on the first day of Operation Cobra on July 26, 1944, when his tank took a direct hit. He was a veteran of the invasions of Sicily & North Africa where he earned the DSC for valor. He served with the 66th Armored Regiment of the 2nd Armored Division. Humbling.
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  • Physical training on the quarterdeck of the cruiser HMS Argonaut, Algeria, December 14-19, 1942.
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  • Fisher price Mountain Climbers, 1970s.
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  • “One Ride with Yankee Papa 13″- Vietnam, April 16, 1965. (Photo by Larry Burrows for Life Magazine)
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  • Italian supply convoy sailing to North Africa, 1941
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  • Campbell’s Surprise! Soup Shakes! ad, 1952
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  • Shape powder. 1970s.
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  • Captain Lewis Nixon of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division suffering a hangover after celebrating V-E Day at Hitler’s “Eagles Nest” (where they “liberated” a collection of 10,000 bottles of liquor, wine, and champagne amassed by Hermann Göring) in Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1945.
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  • ”Deport Kissinger” – Swedish poster for a protest against Kissinger’s Stockholm visit in 1976
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  • Reclining Buddha in a cave below a temple, surrounded by victims of the Cambodian genocide. Near Sisophon, Cambodia. 1980.
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  • “Cool dudes choose SAFER SEX!” – USA, 1980s.
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  • Disneyland employee restaurant in 1961.
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  • “I need a couple guys what don’t owe me no money fer a little routine patrol.” Cartoon of soldiers during WWII, 1939-1945.
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  • On May 10th 1973 a man entered a bank in Kenora Ont. armed with a rifle and a ‘dead man’s switch’ connected to a bomb in his mouth. He was shot leaving the bank, activating the switch, detonating the bomb. His identity remains unknown.
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