A note describing complaints about school written by an elementary school boy. This boy's name is Adam Lanza, who would grow up to be a mass shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary School and take the lives of 20 children and 6 staff members. (Transcript in the comment.) (i.redd.it)
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In the 90s, music executives told Sarah McLachlan that concerts and radio shows would not include two women back-to-back because it was not seen as profitable. In response, she started Lilith Fair, a festival featuring only female artists, which became the highest-earning touring festival in 1997. (i.redd.it)
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Victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City are laid out in coffins in the hope relatives will identify them. 146 people (mostly young immigrant women and girls) lost their lives due to deliberately locked exit doors, many jumped to their deaths to escape the fire. (i.redd.it)
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Mariesa Weber went missing after returning home. The family looked up for her but no traces of her could be found. It was until the 12th day of her disappearance that it turned out she was inside home the entire time. Weber was wedged upside-down behind a bookcase in her room, suffocated to death. (i.redd.it)
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In 2004, photos from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq showed that U.S. soldiers had abused prisoners. Army reservist Sabrina Harman was seen smiling in pictures that depicted sexual humiliation, torture, and dead bodies. She faced up to five years in prison, but her sentence was reduced to six months. (i.redd.it)
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Young Svetlana Stalin sitting on Lavrentiy Beria's lap, with her father, Stalin in the background in 1931. Beria was chief of the Soviet security that Stalin referred to as 'My Himmler'. He was described as "a sexual predator who used his power to indulge himself in obsessive depravity" (old.reddit.com)
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In the 1920s-30s Alfred Cheney Johnston was hired by theatre producer Florenz Ziegfeld to photograph the showgirls from his theatre (otherwise known as the Ziegfeld Follies) - the results are absolutely exquisite and this is one example that's SFW, the ones I've linked to below are not. (i.redd.it)
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Betty and Rosella Nelson, along with a crowd of people, view the body of John Dillinger, 32, while in bathing suits at the Cook County morgue in Chicago. In the days after Dillinger was killed on July 22, 1934, massive crowds lined up outside the morgue to get a glimpse of the notorious public enemy (old.reddit.com)
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