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Hand belonging to an X-ray technician at the Royal London Hospital, which shows the damage from radiation exposure, 1900. Every morning, they would calibrate the machines…
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Picture Of The Day
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On March 18, 1944, 27-year-old Aimo Koivunen and his Finnish ski unit were patrolling Lapland (northernmost region of Finland that is part of the Arctic Circle)…
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Harry Haft, a Polish Jewish boxer was trained in Auschwitz by Nazis to fight to the death for the amusement of military personnel By 1942 Haft…
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Rita Hayworth, 1941. This was one of the most popular pinup photos among American soldiers and sailors during World War II. Four months after Hayworth’s photo…
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This is a portrait of Spanish spy and double agent, Juan Pujol Garcia in his uniform as a lieutenant in the Spanish Republic Army. Up until…
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An immigrant family on the dock at Ellis Island waiting for the government ferry to take them to Manhattan.
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Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire in the 14th century, is the richest person who ever lived (inflation adjusted) Born in 1280, Emperor Mansa Musa…
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The picture that shows the colossal scale of the D-Day operation, 1944 This photograph was taken three days after the Normandy beachhead was established, on June…
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Young “Teddy Boys” somewhere in England, 1956 In 1953, a sweeping trend in fashion took over Britain’s teen boys. It was an adaptation of Edwardian romanticism;…
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The Nixon White House prepared this letter in the event that American astronauts did not survive the Apollo 11 mission On 18 July 1969, presidential speechwriter…