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Children playing with a toy guillotine, France (1959) [1080×810]
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Little girl photographing her doll, 1902
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Soviet marines 1942
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Washington Post cartoon published amidst the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
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The famous picture of a captured SS soldier with Canadian guards, 1944.
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Aug 4 2018
Fidel Castro laughing at a newspaper headline while visiting New York in 1959 [634×674]
Aug 10 2018
Construction of USS Shenandoah (ZR 1) at Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, 29 May 1923.
Aug 10 2018
Actress Bea Arthur when she was in the US Marine Corps, 1943 [400×515]
Aug 10 2018
Front view of Nellie, experimental, 130 ton, British underground tank. Intended to advance on enemy positions at 0.5 mph at the bottom of a trench that it itself was digging. July 1941
Aug 10 2018
Silhouette of the Titanic at Queenstown on her maiden voyage, 1912. [900 x 695]
Aug 10 2018
Einstein drops the Wings of Pacifism and raise the Sword of preparedness against an increasingly hostile Germany, circa 1933.
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The opening ceremony at the first (modern) Olympic Games – Athens, Greece 1896 [640×427]
The opening ceremony at the first (modern) Olympic Games – Athens, Greece 1896 [640×427]
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The Italian town of Recco before 1940 and in 1945. A small coastal town of 5,000 inhabitants in Liguria, east of Genoa, Recco was bombed 27 times owing to a strategically important railway viaduct (photo above). The viaduct was eventually destroyed, but so was 95 % of Recco. [798 x 1054]
“Save waste fats for explosives…” (United States Office of War Information, 1943)
