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U.S. Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a mass grave in Kosovo. 1 July 1999

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U.S. Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a mass grave in Kosovo. 1 July 1999

Bette Davis was the only white performer who agreed to be part of Hattie McDaniel's performing troupe to entertain Black servicemen during WWII.

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Bette Davis was the only white performer who agreed to be part of Hattie McDaniel's performing troupe to entertain Black servicemen during WWII.

Joseph Kony giving rare interview during peace talks in August 2006, which ended second Ugandan Civil war. 20 years later, Kony, accussed of dozens of war crimes, still evades capture

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Joseph Kony giving rare interview during peace talks in August 2006, which ended second Ugandan Civil war. 20 years later, Kony, accussed of dozens of war crimes, still evades capture

U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Dolly Parton embrace in the receiving line at a White House luncheon while his wife, Rosalynn Carter, looks on, October 2, 1979 .

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U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Dolly Parton embrace in the receiving line at a White House luncheon while his wife, Rosalynn Carter, looks on, October 2, 1979 .

An elderly Northern Cheyenne man with a young boy. (c. 1927)

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An elderly Northern Cheyenne man with a young boy. (c. 1927)

Mexican anti-Chinese illustration (1932) comparing a ‘12 year-old Indo-Latino mestizo’ with a ‘14 year-old product of Chinese-Mexican mixture’

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Mexican anti-Chinese illustration (1932) comparing a ‘12 year-old Indo-Latino mestizo’ with a ‘14 year-old product of Chinese-Mexican mixture’

Kenneth McDuff, 52, arrives at the Texas death house for his execution. In 1966, he was sentenced to death for murdering 3 teenagers. Spared by Furman v. Georgia and paroled in 1989, McDuff was executed for using his second chance to rape and murder at least 6 women (Huntsville, 1998) .

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Kenneth McDuff, 52, arrives at the Texas death house for his execution. In 1966, he was sentenced to death for murdering 3 teenagers. Spared by Furman v. Georgia and paroled in 1989, McDuff was executed for using his second chance to rape and murder at least 6 women (Huntsville, 1998) .

An Indian Cavalryman Finds Two Starving Christian Girls in the Mesopotamian Desert and Shares Half His Rations with Them During the First World War, 1917

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An Indian Cavalryman Finds Two Starving Christian Girls in the Mesopotamian Desert and Shares Half His Rations with Them During the First World War, 1917

Me, sixteen months old, collapsed in cozy cuddles on the corduroy couch with my wonderful dad and irreplaceable Flanders, Corona, California, September 1976.

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Me, sixteen months old, collapsed in cozy cuddles on the corduroy couch with my wonderful dad and irreplaceable Flanders, Corona, California, September 1976.

A bloodstained paper found in former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s shirt pocket after his assassination by a Jewish right-wing extremist who opposed the Oslo Accords, with the text of a poem called Shir Hashalom (A Song of Peace). 4th of November 1995.

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A bloodstained paper found in former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s shirt pocket after his assassination by a Jewish right-wing extremist who opposed the Oslo Accords, with the text of a poem called Shir Hashalom (A Song of Peace). 4th of November 1995.

My graduation pictures from 1998 and my pet parrot--the same bird in both pictures!

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My graduation pictures from 1998 and my pet parrot--the same bird in both pictures!

Adolf Hitler wearing a cape at the Nuremberg Party Congress, Germany in 1936

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Adolf Hitler wearing a cape at the Nuremberg Party Congress, Germany in 1936

Maybe we need a catchier slogan (1996)

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Maybe we need a catchier slogan (1996)

Young Bosniak woman Zlata Mujkić, crying at a UN peacekeepers' area in Potočari, near Srebrenica – in the aftermath of the Srebrenica massacre perpetrated by the Army of Republika Srpska – in Bosnia and Herzegovina, c. July 1995.

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Young Bosniak woman Zlata Mujkić, crying at a UN peacekeepers' area in Potočari, near Srebrenica – in the aftermath of the Srebrenica massacre perpetrated by the Army of Republika Srpska – in Bosnia and Herzegovina, c. July 1995.

Me, four years old, listening to the heartbeat of my gorgeous mother with a toy stethoscope in our matchbox of a living room, Merced, California, May 1979.

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Me, four years old, listening to the heartbeat of my gorgeous mother with a toy stethoscope in our matchbox of a living room, Merced, California, May 1979.

K.G.B. Agent Vladimir Putin (then 27), left, with his K.G.B. boss Yuri Sergeyevich. Putin worked as a spy under him. Germany - Dresden, 1979

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K.G.B. Agent Vladimir Putin (then 27), left, with his K.G.B. boss Yuri Sergeyevich. Putin worked as a spy under him. Germany - Dresden, 1979

Hunters clubbing fur seals to death on St Paul Island, Alaska, 1895. Tens of millions of seals were hunted in North America throughout the 19th century, peaking at 700,000 a year at one point before the trade became more closely regulated around the turn of the century (2770x1561)

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Hunters clubbing fur seals to death on St Paul Island, Alaska, 1895. Tens of millions of seals were hunted in North America throughout the 19th century, peaking at 700,000 a year at one point before the trade became more closely regulated around the turn of the century (2770x1561)

Back to school 1970s

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Back to school 1970s

Roza Shanina, A Soviet sniper During WW2 Who Was Credited With 59 Confirmed Kills (November 1944)

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Roza Shanina, A Soviet sniper During WW2 Who Was Credited With 59 Confirmed Kills (November 1944)

Family working in the fields, Poland, 1980s. Photo by Chris Niedenthal.

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Family working in the fields, Poland, 1980s. Photo by Chris Niedenthal.