The 1993 horrific murder of 4-yr-old Derrick Robie at the hands of 13 yr-old Eric Smith in Savona, New York raised impossible questions about justice and rehabilitation. Smith was tried as an adult and sentenced to 9 years to life, later being released in 2022 and is now living in Queens
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She looked like any other Russian grandmother, but Tamara Samsonova kept a diary detailing how she drugged, dismembered, and possibly ate her victims. Convicted of 2 murders, she was suspected of killing at least 14. Dubbed the Granny Ripper, her story shook St Petersburg.
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Daryl Davis has dedicated more than three decades to building relationships with members of the Ku Klux Klan, encouraging many to renounce the group. According to Davis, over 200 individuals have left the Klan after conversations with him, and he now keeps their discarded robes in his home.
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Marlene Dietrich alongside her chauffeur, Briggs in 1931. Photographed during a break of filming for Shanghai Express
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Musician Daryl Davies and a member of Ku Klux Klan in the 1980s. Davies has spent over 30 years befriending Klansmen and convincing them to turn their back on the organisation. He says over 200 Klansmen have given up their robes after talking with him. He stores the robes in his house.
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Musician Daryl Davies has spent over 30 years befriending Klansmen and convincing them to turn their back on the organisation. He says over 200 Klansmen have given up their robes after talking with him. He stores the robes in his house.
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A Victorian home being moved by boat In Tiburon, California, In 1957
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Kurt Debus, the Nazi engineer behind the V-2 rocket (the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile) was recruited after the war along with 1600 other German scientists and engineers to work for the US Government. Debus later became a director of NASA.
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On the left is David Reimer on the right is Brenda Reimer. They're the same person, as a child he was a victim of a botched circumcision, so on the advice of one doctor, the family decided to have him castrated and raise him as a girl. At age 13 he began living as a boy again.
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The wreckage of a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 is towed past the Palace of Westminster in London, 1940.
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The silhouette of a low-flying Avro Vulcan, a symbol of the Cold War, passes over the site of an earlier conflict's disaster.
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A dashboard coffee maker option on 1959 Volkswagen Beetle.
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Manute Bol, the tallest man in the NBA, defending the hoop in the college, 1980s. (Height: 7’7”; 2.31m).
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On this day in 2004, David Reimer committed suicide. He was a victim of a botched circumcision when he was a baby so on the advice of one doctor, his family had him castrated and raised him as a girl. At age 13 he began transitioning back to a boy.
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On this day in 2004, David Reimer committed suicide. He was a victim of a botched circumcision when he was a baby so on the advice of one doctor, his family had him castrated and raised him as a girl. This lasted until the age of 13, ast which point he began living as a boy.
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On this day in 2004, David Reimer committed suicide. He was a victim of a botched circumcision when he was a baby so on the advice of one doctor, his family had him castrated and raised him as a girl. This lasted until the age of 13, ast which point he began living as a boy.
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Jimmy Lee Grey was executed in 1983 for the murder of three-year-old Deressa Jean Scales. His execution was so botched that Mississippi changed it's execution method because of it. He died in a visibly agonising and prolonged manner, which in his case is no bad thing.
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Rick James in a band with Neil Young called the Mynah Birds in the early 1960s
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Miss Soviet Union contest, 1988.
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In 1988 the first official Miss Soviet Union beauty pageant took place. These are some of the images of the run-up to the event.
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In 1988 the first official Miss Soviet Union beauty pageant took place. These are some of the images of the run-up to the event. The rest of the images are in the comment.
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On this day in 1945, soldiers Raqymzhan Qoshqarbaev and Georgij Bulatov raise the Soviet Union flag on the roof of the Reichstag building in Berlin
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A woman wears the sign: “WEAR A MASK OR GO TO JAIL” during the influenza epidemic, California, 1918.
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Published in The San Francisco Examiner, California, February 18, 1912.
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