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"You Are Fake News", Pro-Trump Painting by Jon McNaughton, Circa September 2020.

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"You Are Fake News", Pro-Trump Painting by Jon McNaughton, Circa September 2020.

Me as a boy in 1965 with newly completed model airplane minutes before destroying it on maiden flight. Also me 56 years later with surprise Christmas gift from co-worker of identical replica.

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Me as a boy in 1965 with newly completed model airplane minutes before destroying it on maiden flight. Also me 56 years later with surprise Christmas gift from co-worker of identical replica.

A photo of Ora Ralph Thomas, an Illinois sheriff's deputy during the Prohibition Era. In 1925, Thomas, who also led an anti-Klan paramilitary, was assassinated by three Ku Klux Klan members. He shot and killed all three of his own murderers before collapsing from his injuries .

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A photo of Ora Ralph Thomas, an Illinois sheriff's deputy during the Prohibition Era. In 1925, Thomas, who also led an anti-Klan paramilitary, was assassinated by three Ku Klux Klan members. He shot and killed all three of his own murderers before collapsing from his injuries .

Young father holding his daughter at the Michigan state fair, 1973

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Young father holding his daughter at the Michigan state fair, 1973

Segregationists taunting 6-year-old Ruby Bridges with a black doll in a coffin as she enters an all white school in New Orleans. One woman continuously threatened to poison her.

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Segregationists taunting 6-year-old Ruby Bridges with a black doll in a coffin as she enters an all white school in New Orleans. One woman continuously threatened to poison her.

A rare photograph of Nikola Tesla's funeral, 12th January 1943. His casket is covered with flags of USA and Yugoslavia.

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A rare photograph of Nikola Tesla's funeral, 12th January 1943. His casket is covered with flags of USA and Yugoslavia.

Grammie. She was a midwife, a mother of 11 and a grandmother to many. She was the matriarch and not to be crossed. She is still a family legend

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Grammie. She was a midwife, a mother of 11 and a grandmother to many. She was the matriarch and not to be crossed. She is still a family legend

Soviet Armenian illustration (1957) showing a mob in the US blocking a young black student's path to school.

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Soviet Armenian illustration (1957) showing a mob in the US blocking a young black student's path to school.

Japanese kamikaze pilots pose with a puppy before their final suicide mission in Okinawa, 1945

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Japanese kamikaze pilots pose with a puppy before their final suicide mission in Okinawa, 1945

US soldiers interrogate an elderly Vietnamese man and two children in My Lai. Photographed by Ronald Haeberle, who did not see what ultimately happened to them. March 16, 1968.

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US soldiers interrogate an elderly Vietnamese man and two children in My Lai. Photographed by Ronald Haeberle, who did not see what ultimately happened to them. March 16, 1968.

Elizabeth Plane (1859-1914), daughter of a Cornish copper miner, settled in northern Queensland, widowed four times before she was 40, mother of three; photographed here in 1886

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Elizabeth Plane (1859-1914), daughter of a Cornish copper miner, settled in northern Queensland, widowed four times before she was 40, mother of three; photographed here in 1886

My late Mother and Father - 1968

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My late Mother and Father - 1968

Assassination of Socialist leader Inejirō Asanuma by anti-communist Otoya Yamaguchi, Japan, 1960

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Assassination of Socialist leader Inejirō Asanuma by anti-communist Otoya Yamaguchi, Japan, 1960

More than a 100,000 Iranian women take to the street to protest against the newly formed Islamic government’s compulsory hijab ruling, 8 March 1979

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More than a 100,000 Iranian women take to the street to protest against the newly formed Islamic government’s compulsory hijab ruling, 8 March 1979

"Can Black People and White People work together to defeat our common enemy?"—Antisemetic poster, 2023

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"Can Black People and White People work together to defeat our common enemy?"—Antisemetic poster, 2023

My 23rd birthday was a surprise. 1976

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My 23rd birthday was a surprise. 1976

John Wayne as Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror," filmed in the Utah desert, 137 miles from the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Wayne and many cast/crew died of various cancers years later. St. George, Utah. 1954.

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John Wayne as Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror," filmed in the Utah desert, 137 miles from the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Wayne and many cast/crew died of various cancers years later. St. George, Utah. 1954.

Ser Oswald Mosley on the ground after getting punched by an anti-fascist protestor, Ridley Road, London, 1962

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Ser Oswald Mosley on the ground after getting punched by an anti-fascist protestor, Ridley Road, London, 1962

Malawi mother with her chubby baby, 21 of July 1968

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Malawi mother with her chubby baby, 21 of July 1968

My mother was beautiful. 1960

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My mother was beautiful. 1960