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‘Russians, Go Home!’ Hungary 1956
Warren Nutter, 19, reads a letter from his mother. He was one of the youngest men sentenced to death in Iowa. After his sentence was commuted to life in prison, he became one of the longest serving inmates in the country. Nutter served 65 years at the Iowa State Penitentiary, 1957 .
80 years ago today, Desmond Doss was injured by a grenade on Okinawa – May 21, 1945
Tsarist Russia – a prison of nations. The predatory aspirations of tsarist imperialism. (Map to Lenin’s teaching on imperialism) USSR 1936
French soldiers from the 157th Alpine Rifle Regiment bury their comrades in a shell crater in Bouzonville, France. September, 1914.
Port Arthur, Tasmania c. 1880. It was founded in 1830 as a convict settlement and functioned as a timber-getting camp, producing sawn logs for government projects, and employing “secondary offenders” as its workforce
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My grandfather’s family in rural western Serbia (then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), 1934
Thomas Edison – 1912
Germany’s 1936 Olympic boxing team.
John H. Patterson poses with a lion he shot, one of a pair of Tsavo man-eaters. It was a pair of maneless males that attacked Indian railway builders in southern British Kenya. The exact number of people killed by the lions is unclear. Patterson claimed there were 135 victims. Dec 1898
Canadian officers beam at the news of the signing of the Korean Armistices, July 1953
Tanks and mounted troops advance to break up a Bonus Marchers’ camp of veterans protesting lost wages in Washington D.C., July 28, 1932.
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