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"Slavery is Wrong" - Lincoln Handwritten Letter
This letter, dated the 4th of April 1864, reflects President Lincoln's personal view of slavery.  In it, he says:  "I am naturally anti-slavery.  If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the ...
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"Technicals" - Somali Combat Tactics
The photo depicts a Somali "technical."  A "technical," as defined by the Jamestown Foundation's Global Terrorism Analysis, is "an armor-plated pick-up truck [or other such vehicle] equipped with an anti-aircraft gun, used for firepower and battlefield mobility." During the time of Operation ...
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"Ten Thousand Corpse Ditch" - Nanking Massacre
During the 1937 Japanese conquest of Nanking, thousands of Chinese prisoners of war, and civilians, were killed and buried at a location now known as the "Ten Thousand Corpse Ditch."  The ditch measured approximately three hundred meters long and five meters wide.The Japanese government estimat...
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"The Awful Discovery"
Jack the Ripper's last victim - Mary Jane Kelly - was the most "horrible" of all.  These images, from the Police Illustrated News of 17 November 1888, depict "The Awful Discovery" of her remains. Click on the image to expand its view.
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"The Ten Bells" Pub
This pub, an important place in the story of Jack the Ripper, stands at the corner of Commercial and Fournier Streets in Spitalfields.  It's been there since at least 1752.  Although the exterior has gone through changes, the pub's interior is much the same as it was in 1888.
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"The War in the Border States," by Thomas Nast
As the American Civil War dragged on, people who lived in border states suffered hardships, as depicted in this drawing by Thomas Nast.  (Click on the image to see a larger view.) Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and West Virginia - all slave states - had remained with the Union.  T...
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"Three Old Cat" - A Baseball Game
The game of "three old cat" was played on a triangular field and had three strikers.
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"With Malice Toward None" - Original 2nd Inaugural
This facsimile image of President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address contains the famous phrase:  "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds..." Cli...
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"Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper"
The first time anyone called the 1888 Whitechapel killer "Jack the Ripper" appears in this letter.  It was received at London's Central News Agency on the 27th of September, 1888.At first, the two-page letter was considered a hoax.  Then, three days later, the double murder of Elizabeth St...
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.32 Caliber Short Barreled Johnson Revolver
Leon Czolgosz bought this small revolver (a short-barrelled, 32 caliber, Iver-Johnson) for $4.  He practiced concealing it, since he had a plan to hide it inside a handkerchief (also depicted) before using it on his target:  William McKinley, the President of the United States.On the 6th o...
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