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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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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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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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“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…
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Why Were So Many Japanese Pilots Willing To Conduct Kamikaze Missions?
The Japanese people were very, very patriotic. In addition, they firmly believed that the emperor was god on earth. He was a living god and whatever…
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A Chinese woman whose feet, known as lotus feet, were bound in the late 1800’s – Foot binding was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly…
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By 1942 the FBI was adding 400,000 file cards a month to its archives, and were receiving 110,000 requests for “name checks” per month. By 1944…
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Theodore Roosevelt was shot mid-speech in an assassination attempt in 1912. He refused to have medical treatment until he delivered his 90 minute speech, in which…
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The headquarters of Mussolini’s Italian Fascist Party, 1934 The building in the picture is Palazzo Braschi in Rome, the headquarters of the Fascist Party Federation (the…
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(photo: Tristan Surtel) Dummy head used by John Anglin to fool prison guards during his escape from Alcatraz Prison. Him and his 2 companions whereabouts are…