Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne triggers the expression of ‘terror’ on a subject through electrical stimulation the mimetic muscles; ca. 1862

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Soviet Soldiers performing the Cossack dance after the defeat of Berlin, Germany; ca. May 1945

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Evening on the cruiser Kalinin, the Soviet Pacific Fleet; ca. 1955

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Lieutenant colonel Laaksonen and Eurasian eagle-owl chicks, Suokumaa, Finland; ca. July 1941

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“Hello Democrats! Welcome to Chicago” 1968, police guarding the Democratic National Convention from nearby protesters

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Body of French boy blown into a tree by German shellfire at Avocourt Wood (Battle of Verdun); ca. 1916

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Hillary Clinton as a High School senior on her debate team in Park Ridge, Illinois; ca. 1965

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The first recorded triple dead-heat in a harness race – New Jersey; ca. 1954

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Men building the San Francisco Bay Bridge; ca. 1935

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Irish Rebels manning a barricade during the Easter Rising; ca. 1916

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A member of the G̱usgimukw nation depicts Hami (Dangerous Thing); ca. 1914

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Salvador Dali with Babou, the ocelot and cane; ca. 1965

. Roger Higgins photographer


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Hitler gets a VW for his 50th birthday; ca. 1939

This is definitely one of the top 5 most adorable photos of Hitler


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Vladimir Ilich Lenin in disguise, Helsinki; August 11th, 1917

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“Anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army in South Russia”; January 1918

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A German Zeppelin caught in the searchlights during a WW1 bombing raid over London; ca. 1916

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“Six Zulu men posed sitting on the ground near a small cauldron”; ca . 1920 -1930

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A Messerschmidt KR175, Germany; ca. 1954

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Hitler in lederhosen; ca. 1930s.

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The “Mingun Bell”, Myanmar; ca. 1873

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Trees cut for firewood by members of the stranded Donner Party, showing the depth of the snow they were forced to deal with; ca. 1866

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A cat righting itself mid-air after being dropped, chronophotography by Étienne-Jules Marey; ca. 1894

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The Great Wall of China before modern restorations; ca. 1907

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Woman counter-protesting with her daughters at a black civil liberties rally in Bogalusa, Louisiana; ca. 1965

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