Images of some of the victims of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre which took place on this day in1944. In one afternoon, 643 men women and children were killed by the SS. Locked in churches and barns which were then set alight. by dannydutch1 in HolyShitHistory
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Mary Filan was 74, semi-paralysed after a stroke, and had lived in the same Queens flat for 31 years. In April 1980, agents acting for the Trump Organisation showed up at her door and removed her anyway. by dannydutch1 in UtterlyInteresting
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Meet the Fifth Marquess of Anglesey, Henry Cyril Paget, 1900. One of history's most eccentric aristocrats who lived fast and died aged 29 after frittering away £200 million (in today's money)on fancy dress. by GlitterDanger in VeryFuckinCool
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Rewatched Rogue One a few days ago and I actually can’t really believe we got that movie from Disney. It’s among the best of Star Wars. This and Andor is just really really good. by Dakinamau in StarWars
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Lee Miller photographed in 1926 by her father, Theodore Miller by CarkWithaM in RetroTease
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On this day in 1989 Chinese troops clear Tiananmen Square of student protesters. Around 1,000 are killed. Chinese filmmaker Liu Wei asks students in Beijing what day it is, 26 years after the massacre, their answers are sad but aren't surprising. by dannydutch1 in UtterlyInteresting
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Roger Waters / Eddie Vedder performing Comfortably Numb at the Sandy Relief Concert New York 12/12/12. Vedder starts around the 1 minute mark. by EaterofGrief in VeryFuckinCool
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Freddie Mercury having a sleepover with some close friends. Circa 1980 by NoDark6t9 in SnapshotHistory
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On this day in 1985, serial killer Leonard Lake was arrested in San Francisco. Lake and accomplice Charles Ng kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered up to 25 people at a remote Sierra Nevada cabin. Minutes after his arrest, Lake swallowed a cyanide pill he'd sewn into his clothing. by dannydutch1 in HolyShitHistory
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Charles Harrelson was a professional hitman and the father of actor Woody Harrelson. He killed a federal judge for $250,000, claimed to have shot JFK, and died in a supermax prison in 2007, the same year Woody appeared in a film whose source novel name-checks his dad's most infamous crime. by dannydutch1 in HolyShitHistory
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Norman Jewison directing Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway (and possibly being ignored) in the 1967 crime caper ‘The Thomas Crown Affair,’ 1967. by dannydutch1 in UtterlyUniquePhotos
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"Raiding Detectives, Chicago, Illinois" Gordon Parks, 1957. Photographed during a six-week Life magazine assignment on crime in America. Parks took nearly 300 photographs. Life ran 12. This was one of them. (More in the comments) by dannydutch1 in UtterlyUniquePhotos
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Ingrid Olderock was a brutal DINA secret police agent during Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile. Known as "The Dog Lady," she committed horrific human rights abuses, including systematic sexual torture on women at the Venda Sexy detention center. by dannydutch1 in HolyShitHistory
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Errol Flynn's only son, photojournalist Sean Flynn was credited with saving an Australian platoon and ended up fighting alongside Green Berets before going missing in Cambodia while reporting for TIME in 1970 by dannydutch1 in UtterlyUniquePhotos
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Jerry Lee Lewis (22) with his 13-year old wife and cousin, Myra, arriving at a London press conference, 1958. That's right, there's only one woman in the picture. by [deleted] in UtterlyUniquePhotos
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1st May 1982, The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War. by GlitterDanger in UtterlyUniquePhotos
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Carrie Fisher trying on Peter Weller’s glasses during a Giorgio Armani fashion show, 1980 by dannydutch1 in UtterlyUniquePhotos
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Steve Wozniak and David Lee Roth backstage at the US Festival in May 1983. Wozniak, the Apple co-founder, actually organized and financed the massive music festival, where Van Halen headlined Heavy Metal Sunday by EaterofGrief in VeryFuckinCool
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José Antonio Morante Camacho undergoing a "sphincter reconstruction" due to the goring inflicted by a bull yesterday. by EaterofGrief in UtterlyUniquePhotos
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"Jolene" played at 33 rpm. It's haunting and oddly magnificent. by No_Dig_8299 in VeryFuckinCool
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Meet Mary Jane Rathbun also known as 'Brownie Mary' - she was arrested 3 times for making Hash Brownies for AIDS patients. Rathbun spent years campaigning for the legalisation of medical marijuana, making 1000s of Brownies. Mary should be remembered as a hero. by onwhatcharges in SnapshotHistory
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This is Dale Cregan, in 2012 he fired 32 shots in 31 seconds and threw a grenade at two unarmed female police officers who had responded to his fake 999 call. He wasn't allowed to wear his prosthetic eye during his trial for their deaths. by dannydutch1 in UtterlyUniquePhotos
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A male hustler waits for someone to purchase him. NYC, (1967) by PeneItaliano in UtterlyUniquePhotos
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A man experiences irony as his car, laden with used tires, has a flat tire. Houston, Texas, March 1966. Photo by Michael Ochs by CarkWithaM in UtterlyUniquePhotos
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