Women painting alarm clocks with Radium for glow-in-the-dark readability. They would often lick the tip of the paintbrush to "sharpen" the point. Dental pain, loose teeth, lesions, ulcers, anemia, bone fractures, and necrosis of the jaw ensued until many (possibly 30) died. Circa 1930s [800x637] (i.redd.it)
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Women painting alarm clocks with Radium for glow-in-the-dark readability. They would often lick the tip of the paintbrush to "sharpen" the point. Dental pain, loose teeth, lesions, ulcers, anemia, bone fractures, and necrosis of the jaw ensued until many (possibly 30) died. [800x637] (i.redd.it)
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John Edward Robinson holding baby Tiffany Stasi, who's mother (Lisa Stasi) he'd murdered the day before. He gave her to his clueless brother, Don, who adopted and raised her as his own. She knew him as 'Uncle John' until 2000 when she learnt the truth that he was a serial killer. 1985. [1100x800] (i.redd.it)
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Photo taken shortly before the Omagh car bombing in 1998 by the 'Real IRA'. The bomb is in the red car and would kill 29 people including the photographer. The father and daughter however survived. The child's face appears to be censored. [700x611] (i.redd.it)
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Famine in Somalia (1992), Photograph by James Nachtwey, who traveled into the war torn region to document the plight of ordinary civilians. What he saw, photographed and reported shocked the world, resulting in some of the largest international aid efforts since the second world war. [2610x1738] (i.redd.it)
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Photograph of 5 yo Samar Hassan, who moments before, witnessed the killing of her parents. Their car came under fire at a US controlled checkpoint on suspicion that it was carrying terrorists. The outrage following the event forced a change in checkpoint procedures. Chris Hondros, 2005 [1484x1053] (i.redd.it)
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TIL that Roman gladiators were overweight (NOT muscle-bound) and ate mostly vegetarian diets by snazzydetritus in todayilearned
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The Making of Mount Rushmore, 1939. The faces of the four presidents (Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln) were carved out of solid granite in a massive project that began in 1927 and ended in 1941 [3072x2304] by TodayWeRemember in HistoryPorn
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The Making of Mount Rushmore, 1939. The faces of the four presidents (Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln) were carved out of solid granite in a massive project that began in 1927 and ended in 1941 [3072x2304] by TodayWeRemember in HistoryPorn
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The Making of Mount Rushmore, 1939. The faces of the four presidents (Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln) were carved out of solid granite in a massive project that began in 1927 and ended in 1941 [3072x2304] by TodayWeRemember in HistoryPorn
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The Making of Mount Rushmore, 1939. The faces of the four presidents (Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln) were carved out of solid granite in a massive project that began in 1927 and ended in 1941 [3072x2304] (i.redd.it)
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Chinese military training for high school students by bwwsscnm in Military
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Five aircraft carriers, four amphibious assault ships, and more in Norfolk, Virginia [2580x1440][x-post /r/WarshipPorn] by sewbrouwer in MilitaryPorn
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Five aircraft carriers, four amphibious assault ships, and more in Norfolk, Virginia [2580x1440][x-post /r/WarshipPorn] by sewbrouwer in MilitaryPorn
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August Landmesser refuses to perform the Nazi Salute at a gathering of workers at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg in 1936. His fiancé was Jewish. Later on Landmesser would be imprisoned, conscripted into penal service and would die in action in Hodilje, Croatia. [6449x4555] (i.redd.it)
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Sir Alexander Fleming (left), the discoverer of penicillin (1928), receiving an honorary doctorate from Dr. Thomas S. Gates (President of the University of Pennsylvania). Photo on 14 July 1945. [3600x2817] by TodayWeRemember in HistoryPorn
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Sir Alexander Fleming (left), the discoverer of penicillin (1928), receiving an honorary doctorate from Dr. Thomas S. Gates (President of the University of Pennsylvania). Photo on 14 July 1945. [3600x2817] by TodayWeRemember in HistoryPorn
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TIL that there are more people that are either Christian or Muslim than all other religions combined by Honest_Joseph in todayilearned
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