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Aron Ralston's self-amputated arm stuck between a boulder and a canyon wall; he was trapped in the canyon for six days before freeing himself

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An Imposing Pinkerton Detective Poses With His Lead Gloves circa 1875

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White agitators kick a black man outside Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas during racial desegregation protests in September 1957

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Sculpture by Emil Melmouth

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Titanic 1912

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A wounded soldier, Ken Kozakiewicz (left), cries after being given the dog tags and learning of the death of a fellow tank crewman, in the body bag to the right, after a friendly fire incident on Feb 28, 1991.

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67 million year old battle between a protoceratops and a velociraptor (fossilized, found in thr Gobi Desert in Mongolia 1971)

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X-ray of a U-boat captain who attempted suicide upon capture of his vessel during WWII

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The decomposing corpse of a Japanese soldier who committed suicide during World War II. His toe is still on the trigger of the rifle. Taken from the archives of All Hands, the official U.S. Navy magazine.

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"Highway of Death" during the Gulf War as seen from above. A different perspective from the charred Iraqi soldier seen in an earlier post.

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Medusa

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Victorian criminal punishments for children were often very harsh. In 1880, there were 6,500 children under 16 in adult prisons, of whom 900 were under 12.

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Just found this concrete tombstone digging in the yard that seems to have a 1960s date. Very hard to read. Possibly for a pet?

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Article on a 1865 double murder-suicide in Dedham, Massachusetts, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

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My step-granny killed herself. She tried to cut her wrists 2 times but wasn't successful. She took of her shoes and step into the pond at my step-mom and my dads house where she lived. She never learned to swim and drowned. They let her shoes at the place

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