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Opening of King Tut’s sarcophagus (1924)

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The lynching of Jesse Washington.Washington was beaten with shovels and bricks,was castrated, and his ears were cut off. A tree supported the iron chain that lifted him above the fire. Jesse attempted to climb up the skillet hot chain. For this, the men cut off his fingers.Jesse was 15.1916.

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The lynching of Jesse Washington.

Washington was beaten with shovels and bricks,was castrated, and his ears were cut off. A tree supported the iron chain that lifted him above the fire. Jesse attempted to climb up the skillet hot chain. For this, the men cut off his fingers.

Jesse was 15.

1916.

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Winter Forest by Michael Rösch

On July 22, 1975, photographer Stanley J. Forman, who was working for the Boston Herald American newspaper when he overheard a police scanner pick up an emergency: “Fire on Marlborough Street!” He climbed on a fire truck outside the building, and shot this picture of a young woman, Diana Bryant, and a very young girl, Tiare Jones, when they fell when the fire escape they were standing on broke. Diana Bryant was pronounced dead at the scene. The young girl lived.

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