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Clothes and axe belonging to Mastro Titta, Rome’s most famous executioner Giovanni Battista Bugatti (mostly known as Mastro Titta) is one of Rome’s most iconic figures.…
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Joe Carter, a African American man, prepares to face the Klan after trying to vote, picture was taken by Bob Adelman in 1964 Reverend Carter, expecting…
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This is widely believed to be the last ever photo taken of a Barbary Lion (a species now extinct). The picture was taken from on board…
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A CIA case officer is photographed at a dead drop location in Moscow, 1962 On November 2nd, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis was winding down. It…
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In 1908, Bertha Boronda was charged with "mayhem" — for slicing off her husband’s penis with a straight razor. Early in the morning on May 30th,…
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In 1941, the photo on the left was taken of Soviet soldier Eugen Stepanovich Kobytev on the day he left to go to war. The photo…
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The last US Civil War Widow died in 2020. The practice of a young woman marrying an older man for his Civil War pension as a…
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Veterans eat their meals in the dining hall of the National Soldiers’ Home, a facility for the care of disabled American veterans, many from the Civil…
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William Roentgen demonstrates X-ray machines in Omaha, 1898 In the late 19th century, X-rays set America’s imagination ablaze. Only three years after its discovery by William…
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World chess champion Garry Kasparov during the first six-game match against IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, February 10-17th, 1996 First people thought that…