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(photo: Jecini Colorizations) Scold’s Bridle from Armagh Jail – Ireland. early 1900s – a woman sitting with the bridle over her face, to stop her from…
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On March 6, 1981, Marianne Bachmeier opened fire in a courthouse in West Germany. She was aiming for the murderer of her 7-year-old daughter — and…
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Kids remote learning during a polio outbreak in the 1940s. Teachers read lessons over the radio. In 1937, a severe polio epidemic hit the U.S. At…
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Billie Holiday performing “Strange Fruit” at Café Society, the first integrated nightclub in New York 1939 The song protests the lynching of Black Americans, with lyrics…
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The KKK used to run a youth group called the Klu Klux Kiddies They were the children of the Ku Klux Klan, and their baptism included…
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Eduard Bloch, Hitler’s childhood doctor, and a Jew. When Hitler’s mother couldn’t afford cancer treatment, Bloch reduced his prices. Teenage Adolf declared undying gratitude, and when…
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(photo: "Hatuey monument” by Michal Zalewski) Before being burned alive by the Spaniards, Chief Hatuey was asked if he wanted to accept Christianity and go to…
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Portrait of an American Airlines stewardess posing in uniform on an airplane in 1967, part of an ad campaign for the airline. The post-WWII America changed…
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A Soviet propaganda poster from 1944 depicting legions of German soldiers destined to die in the Russian winter thanks to Hitler’s orders. If you read the…
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“The Last Man to Die in WWII” Leipzig, Germany April 18, 1945 War photographer Robert Capa took this iconic photo of an American soldier shot and…