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SWAT team questioned why they didn’t enter Columbine High School sooner during the April 20th, 1999 shooting.
u/No_Dig_8299 — 6 days ago
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14 yr-old Celine Dion sits across from her future husband and manager, 39-year-old René Angélil, in 1982.
u/GlitterDanger — 6 days ago
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Max Tetelbaum (1931/1932–1944) was 12 years old when he was arrested by the Gestapo at Maison d’Izieu on 6 April 1944. Held at Montluc and Drancy, he was deported on 13 April 1944 in Convoy 71 to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered upon arrival.
u/EaterofGrief — 6 days ago
London, c.1902. A mother and her children making matchboxes. The kids fetched the chip and paper from the match factory and carried back the finished boxes. One of the lowest paid sweated trades, it earned families just two pence per 144 boxes, and they usually bought their own paste and string.
u/CarkWithaM — 10 days ago
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In July 1943, gold tycoon Sir Harry Oakes was found dead in his bed in Nassau, beaten, burned and covered in pillow feathers. The Duke of Windsor took personal charge of the case and made a mess of it. The only man ever tried walked free, and more than 80 years on nobody's been convicted.
u/dannydutch1 — 11 days ago