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Freedom Rider Joan Trumpauer Mulholland arrested June 8, 1961, Mississippi Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, a recipient of the 2015 National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award, is a…
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Picture Of The Day
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U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, landing at Incheon. he was killed minutes in action while covering a live grenade with his body, posthumously…
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The Room in Which Hitler and Eva Braun Committed Suicide On January 16, 1945, Hitler established his residence in the Führerbunker, which served as the hub…
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19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English tribunal. May 30, 1431 Joan of Arc, a peasant girl living in medieval France,…
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Laika: The Soviet Space Dog Sent on a One-Way Trip into Orbit, 1957 During the early days of the Space Race, the Soviet Union aimed to…
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U.S. soldiers examine a famous painting, “Wintergarden,” by French Impressionist Edouard Manet, part of a collection of Reichbank wealth, SS loot and paintings removed by the…
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Bandit’s Roost, at 59½ Mulberry Street (Mulberry Bend), was the most crime-ridden, dangerous part of all New York City. The investigative journalist and self-taught photographer, Jacob…
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After WW2 the Japanese Admiral who invented the idea of kamikaze pilots committed ritual suicide, seppuku, as an apology. After cutting through his abdomen he refused…
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This is a photo of the students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, c. 1900. The school was established in 1879 in order to forcibly…
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The only known picture of President Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe together, 1962 This black and white image, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, is the…