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Venezuelan President Cipriano Castro (right) with his vice President & military minister Juan Vicente Gomez, early 1900s. Gomez would soon overthrow Castro in 1908, ruling the country for 27 years until his death in 1935. He was often known as "the Catfish" or "the Tyrant of the Andes" (1782x1183)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 2 days ago
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A young Japanese Prince (& future Emperor) Hirohito play-fighting with a family friend, 1913. Despite the strict rules that governed photography of Emperor Hirohito during his reign, photographers were relatively free to take pictures of him before he was crowned Emperor. (1005x617)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 5 days ago
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President & founder of the Republic of Turkey Mustafa Kemal 'Ataturk' (Father of the Turks) 1930's. After overseeing the Turkish victory at Gallipoli, he won the Turkish war of independence & oversaw sweeping secular, modernizing reforms to the country until his sudden death in 1938 (4589x3582)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 5 days ago
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A 1959 propaganda photo produced by Chinese officials in Shandong during the 'Great Leap Forward.' The staged photo purported to show a wheat harvest so bountiful that it could support multiple people's weight, in reality they were held up by a bench covered in wheat from multiple fields (1181x900)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 5 days ago
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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger hanging out with soccer legend Pele prior to the start of his last game for the New York Cosmos before retiring back to Brazil in 1977. Pele credited Kissinger, an avid soccer fan, with convincing him to play in the U.S. (2000x1305)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 6 days ago
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The only known meeting to have occurred between Mustafa Kemal 'Ataturk,' the founder of modern Turkey, & US army Chief of Staff general Douglas Macarthur, (both top left) 1932. Macarthur would outlive Ataturk, who died from complications of alcoholism in 1938, by almost 26 years.

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 6 days ago
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The only known meeting to have occurred between Mustafa Kemal 'Ataturk,' the founder of modern Turkey, & US army Chief of Staff general Douglas Macarthur, (both top left) 1932. Macarthur would outlive Ataturk, who died from complications of alcoholism in 1938, by almost 26 years. (1029x768)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 6 days ago
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1871 cartoon condemning German Kaiser Wilhelm I & Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck for their warmongering. On the table are carafes of Danish, Austrian, and French blood. On the floor are skulls & bones from earlier meals/conquests. Behind Bismarck's chair, the devil looks on approvingly. Artist unknown

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 7 days ago
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"As she is so beautiful, poor Spain, the more they strip her naked, the more beautiful she is. Those who look at her, few pity her, the most envy her." 1885 Spanish political cartoon criticizing Restoration-era political infighting when Spain's enemies were taking advantage of its imperial decline

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 7 days ago
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One of the only known photos of Cambodian dictator Pol Pot (right) with his wife Khieu Ponnary (left) alongside other members of the Khmer Rouge leadership, 1970's. Initially an influential member of the Cambodian government, she later succumbed to schizophrenia & was abandoned by Pot (1054x104)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 7 days ago
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British army surgeon Dr William Brydon in 1864. 22 years earlier Brydon became famous as the sole survivor of the initially 16,000+ strong British retreat from Kabul during the Anglo-Afghan war, though others were later recovered. He was immortalized in the painting “Remnants of an Army” (1000x700)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 7 days ago
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The silhouettes of the two Pahlavi Shahs of Iran, Reza & his son (then Crown-Prince) Mohammed-Reza, 1930's. Reza ruled the country from 1921-41 after a coup that took power from the Qajar dynasty (only becoming Shah in 1925.) Mohammed reigned from 1941 until his ouster in the 1979 Iranian revolution

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 11 days ago
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Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo departing from a train, 1940. Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republic for over 30 years from 1930-1961, murdering over 50,000 people in the process, mostly his own citizens. By the time of his death, he was one of the wealthiest men in the world (5981x6783)

u/Aboveground_Plush — 10 days ago