Picture Of The Day
Picture of the Day
A weeping George Gillette in 1940, witnessing the forced sale of 155,000 acres of land for the Garrison Dam and Reservoir, dislocating more than 900 Native…
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Picture Of The Day
Picture of the Day
This is the result of 200 years of inbreeding, Charles the II of Spain, at age 4 he could barely walk and was still breastfeeding. At…
Picture Of The Day
Picture of the Day
Dina Sanichar, the feral boy found after being raised by wolves and was the inspiration for The Jungle Book’s character of Mowgli Deep in the northern…
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The Execution of György Dózsa History has taught us that committing high treason is a sure fire way to get tortured and executed in the most…
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This is Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker and nurse who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. She entered the ghetto using a…
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This was a poster put up in San Francisco, calling for the forcible removal of Japanese Americans in 1942. The instructions are clear: “All Japanese persons,…
Picture Of The Day
Picture of the Day
Texas Track Club in 1964 During the spring of 1964, Sports Illustrated covers featured the usual cadre of super (or soon to be super) stars: golfer…
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CEOs of 7 major tobacco corporations testifying under oath that nicotine does NOT cause addiction in 1994 All 7 quit their jobs by 1996. William Campbell,…
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9 year old Eunice Winstead with her 22 year old husband, Charlie Johns, in Tennessee, 1937. Before the marriage the Reverend quickly looked over their marriage…
Picture Of The Day
Picture of the Day
Portrait of cotton mill workers in Georgia, 1909 Families usually began mill work together, since employers paid adults poor wages and offered jobs to children to…