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Image 1 — Florence Thompson, the Migrant Mother in Dorothea Lange's famous 1936 photo, holds up her likeness during an interview after her identity was made known, October 10, 1978
Image 2 — Florence Thompson, the Migrant Mother in Dorothea Lange's famous 1936 photo, holds up her likeness during an interview after her identity was made known, October 10, 1978
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Florence Thompson, the Migrant Mother in Dorothea Lange's famous 1936 photo, holds up her likeness during an interview after her identity was made known, October 10, 1978

u/dannydutch1 — 8 hours ago
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Pedro Ara with the embalmed remains of Eva Perón, 1952. Her blood had been replaced with glycerine which preserved all organs and lent an appearance of "artistically rendered sleep". Her body then went missing for nearly 20 years on a strange (sometime sinister) journey around the world.

u/dannydutch1 — 4 hours ago
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The Big Chief Root Beer stand, a fifteen-foot-tall structure shaped like a Native American chief's head that operated on U.S. Highway 40 in Kansas City, Missouri, during the 1930s.

u/JohnWilkesLeg — 1 day ago
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On this day in 1987, Klaus Barbie (the Gestapo chief who tortured the French Resistance) was finally sentenced to life in prison. By then he'd already spent years in Bolivia advising dictators, helping plan a cocaine coup, and cutting a deal with Pablo Escobar.

u/dannydutch1 — 1 day ago
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The Duke (formerly King Edward VIII) and Duchess of Windsor jumping for a portrait by photographer Philippe Halsman in 1958. This photograph was taken for Halsman's "Jump Book," a project where he asked notable sitters to jump to capture them without their defenses.

u/SteveNtheseagulls — 1 day ago
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This is Katherine Bowes-Lyon. She was Queen Elizabeth II's first cousin. In 1941 she was quietly placed in a Surrey institution. In 1963 Burke's Peerage listed her as already dead. In 1987 The Sun found her alive. No royal ever spoke about her publicly.

u/dannydutch1 — 2 days ago
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Elvis Presley shot the TV set in his suite in the International Hotel In Las Vegas because he was irritated by singer Robert Goulet’s performance on the Mike Douglas Show (1974). The TV is now on display at Graceland. Photo by Annie Leibovitz

u/EaterofGrief — 3 days ago
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Preacher Marjoe Gortner (his name was a combination of Mary and Joseph) as a child and also later in life. Gortner scammed believers for years, then exposed the grift in a fascinating documentary, he then swapped pulpits for B-movies.

u/CrippledStripper — 2 days ago
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Cybermen photographed waiting for a bus for the BBC series Doctor Who. It was used as a publicity stunt for the episode arc titled The Moonbase. January 19, 1967.

u/DWPhoenix001 — 3 days ago
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Ernest Hemingway holding a shotgun in the Finca Vigia, his home in Cuba. This is the same weapon he used to end his own life on this day in 1961.

u/dannydutch1 — 3 days ago
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‘A literal interpretation, probably meant for males only, of the recent rescinding of the beach's law requiring all swimmers to wear "tops."’ New Jersey, August 11, 1939. Spring Lake Beach, New Jersey, USA

u/No_Dig_8299 — 3 days ago
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"Aid from the Padre," was taken by Venezuelan photojournalist Héctor Rondón Lovera in 1962.It depicts Navy chaplain Luis María Padilla comforting a soldier who was fatally wounded by sniper fire during the "El Porteñazo" military uprising in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.

u/CarkWithaM — 3 days ago