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Segregated water fountains in North Carolina, 1950.

 

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An escaped enslaved man named Peter showing his scarred back at a medical examination in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863.

 

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The US Pacific squadron during the operation to recapture the Marshall Islands from Japan, 1944.

 

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Chinese Prisoners from the 19th and 20th Centuries

 

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Happy family taking home their book haul from the Cincinnati Library bookmobile in 1940

 

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This is what New York City's Central Park looked like during the Great Depression. This picture, captured in 1933, showcases a range of Hoovervilles, makeshift settlements created by the unemployed and named after President Herbert Hoover.

 

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1963, You’ll be able to carry your phone in your pocket in the future

 

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In 1939, 20,000 US citizens rallied at Madison Square Garden in support of Nazis in Europe.

 

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Mildred & Richard Loving, whose marriage, and subsequent court cases, would go on to end all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the US. (1950s)

 

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The peaceful Monk, Thich Quang Duc, standing up against government injustice - 1963

 

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A Chinese boy is beheaded - his only crime was being a member of a household suspected by Japs of aiding Chinese guerillas, 1938.

 

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A Japanese-American family returns home from an internment camp to find their home vandalized with racial slurs, 1945

 

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Stephen Hawking and his wife, Jane, on their wedding day (1965)

 

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A young Korean girl carries her baby brother on her back during The Korean War-1951.

 

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In 1943, British spies tricked the Nazis into thinking the Allies would invade Greece, not Sicily. Using a corpse with fake documents, they planted the ultimate lie—changing the course of WWII!

The Great Deception: How Operation Mincemeat Fooled the Nazi

The man behind the operation was Ewen Montagu, a spymaster who devised a plan that involved using the body of a dead tramp, dressed as a British officer, to

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A Big Bertha howitzer on the Western Front, 1914.

 

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In 1961, Michael Rockefeller, son of VP Nelson Rockefeller, vanished while exploring New Guinea. His journey to study the Asmat tribe turned into one of the 20th century’s most chilling mysteries.

 

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Portraits of a father and son having fun. Ca. 1910s.

 

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British troops guard a beach near Belfast, Northern Ireland. July 1972.

 

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David Hasselhoff singing "Looking for Freedom" on a cherry picker overlooking the Berlin Wall. 31st December 1989.

 

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In 1996, a 3-year-old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure, injured & surrounded by 7 gorillas. Binti Jua, a female gorilla with her baby on her back, cradled the boy & safely handed him to zookeepers. Her maternal instincts made headlines worldwide.

 

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A Chinese boy is beheaded - his only crime was being a member of a household suspected by Japs of aiding Chinese guerillas, 1938.

Smile on that asshole's face is why I will never support Kewpie mayonnaise.

 

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Segregated water fountains in North Carolina, 1950.

We still had these where I live when I was a kid in the ‘60s, as well as separate entry doors and even some places where non-whites simply weren’t welcome at all.

 

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In 1939, 20,000 US citizens rallied at Madison Square Garden in support of Nazis in Europe.

Lot of Nazi sympathizers in both the US and Britain. A common joke in the US went “What’s the fastest thing in the world? A kike on a bike in the Reich!”