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Newsboys and Newsgirl getting afternoon papers in New York City On July 18, 1899, newspaper boys in Long Island City, Queens, discovered that a supplier was…
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The Lost German Girl, 1945. V-Day in Europe/ This is Lore Bauer. Born in Kollerschlag, Austria 1921. She was assigned to the Prague anti-aircraft department in late…
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Born with a rare condition that caused her knees to bend backward, Ella Harper, known professionally as The Camel Girl, received a $200 per week as…
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In 1984 Michael Larson was a contestant on Press Your Luck. Using the stop-motion on his VCR, he noticed that the presumed random patterns of the…
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This is a photo of Pelorus Jack. He was a dolphin that used to guide ships through an extremely dangerous channel in New Zealand. First appearing…
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Hans-Georg Henke, a 16 year old German soldier, after a long battle he was captured by the American’s and taken as a POW. He burst into…
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Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel is frozen in time since the day Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis. It still contains the ashtray…
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Penny auction at foreclosed Michigan farm (1936). At penny auctions farmers would conspire to offer low bids, resulting in a low return to the creditor. The…
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Mildred and Richard Loving, the couple involved in the landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled anti-interracial marriage laws are unconstitutional On a quiet July night in…
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Soviet Soldier in a parade in Moscow, 1940 He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm.…