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The last image of Franz Reichelt, an Austrian-born French tailor who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable…
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Before days of modern medicine, many feared being buried alive. As a result, safety coffins were invented in case the living were mispronounced dead. A string…
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List of Jewish populations by country used at the Wannsee Conference attended by Nazi Party and government officials in January 1942 In preparation for the conference,…
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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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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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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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Why Did The Soviet Union Collapse?
The biggest factor was nationalism. The USSR was one large super-state made up of many smaller states that had been independent countries in the past; sort…
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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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A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936. Men stood by their fences and looked at the ruined…
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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…