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"On September 5, 1942, United States Navy Petty Officer First Class Charles Jackson French, of Omaha Nebraska, swam through the night for 6 - 8 hours pulling a raft of 15 wounded sailors with a rope around his stomach through shark-infested waters after the USS Gregory was hit

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Betty White on her sixth birthday, 1928.

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"My wife went out with me for the first time without a wig. She was diagnosed with scarring alopecia years before I met her. [...] I remember the first time she showed me her bald head in real life. And now I will always remember the first time we went out together bald." ❤️

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Swimming Hall of Fame." (Sources: The International Swimming Hall of Fame and ) Petty Officer First Class Charles Jackson French passed away on November 7th, 1956 at the age of 37. Lest We Forget.

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by Japanese naval fire near Guadalcanal. French successfully brought the men to safety on the shores of the Solomon Islands. French was the first black swimmer to earn the Navy Medal for his heroism in 1943. French's story first came to light when Robert N. Adrian a young ensign,

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This is such a powerful photo. It was taken in April 1945 by Major Clarence Benjamin and shows a train of Jewish prisoners that had been intercepted by Allied Forces. This is the moment they learned that the train would not head to a Concentration Camp they had been liberated.

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Charles Jackson French was identified, he became a national hero. A depiction of French's heroic actions was included in the WWII Commemorative Card Set produced by Gum Inc., based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. In addition to the War Gum trading card, his story was told in

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safety." Adrian told him it was impossible that he would only be giving himself up to the sharks that surrounded them "French responded that he was not afraid. He was a powerful swimmer, and swam all night, 6 to 8 hours until they were eventually saved by a landing craft." Once

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told a reporter from the Associated Press about how Charles braved the Pacific Ocean to bring the men to safety. Ensign Adrian was the only one on the bridge to survive and floated over into the water as the ship sank below him. Hearing voices, he found a life raft filled with

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syndicated comic strips, on calendars and he made public appearances across the country to promote the sale of War Bonds. Pictured is Charles with his sister Viola during a public appearance at a football game in Omaha, Nebraska,1943. He is also recognized by the International

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15 wounded men. Adrian, though superficially wounded, was able to hang on. “I knew that if we floated ashore we'd be taken as prisoners of war," he said. "Then French volunteered to swim the raft away from shore. He asked for help to tie a rope around his waist and towed them to

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“I never quite understood why we have to let religion and politics and things like that stand in the way of just being good human beings.” Dolly Parton 2022 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Award Recipient

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Well, it finally happened. My ex-brother-in-law passed away last week of Trumpcovid-19. I just learned last night that my mother, sister, niece, and her boyfriend tested positive for the Trumpcovid-19. I'm at a loss trying to figure this out.

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Here I am at Camp Pendleton infantry training eating out of a can. No MRE's these were Sea Rations. I was 17 with a world war II helmet. No kevlar. Last two years of Vietnam.

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Who remembers this cheese?

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@HealWithKasey I have not. I'm vaxxed, boosted, and always wear a mask. I don't eat out only to order and pick up to go. I don't go to parties or the movies. Any other questions?

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The legendary town of Banff, Canada's most treasured mountain town. Located in Banff National Park Canada

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George Best with Billy Connolly. 1977. (Mirrorpix)

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Emily Perez was the first female African American Cadet Command Sergeant Major in the history of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. She was deployed to Iraq as a Medical Service Corps officer and killed when a makeshift bomb exploded near her Humvee during (See ALT)

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The last "knight" was a man named Josef Mencik. He lived in Czechoslovakia until 1945 like a real knight, in a castle, without electricity or cars. He even attacked German tanks on his horse in full armor during World War 2.

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@realDonaldTrump Let's talk about how you dodged the draft and paid a doctor to say you had bone spurs to get out of serving your country at a time of war. How you claimed your Vietnam was trying not to get an STD and you claimed to be a hero Mr. Mushroom.

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Publix Market In Sarasota, Florida, 1961.

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The Grand Teton mountains. Wyoming - USA

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August 23, 1989: 2 million people form a human chain through Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, uniting all 3 countries to show the world their desire to escape The Soviet Union.

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The first thing that comes to mind when seeing this photo?

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Linda Ronstadt in 1968 - photographed by Elliott Landy

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In this 1956 episode of "I Love Lucy", Lucy admires the style of a Paris model. Ricky, not so much. The model's name is Georgia Holt and she was Cher's mother.

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Jewish youths rescued from Auschwitz show their camp tattoos while aboard a refugee ship, July 15th, 1945.

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I think Lake Tahoe says they have enough snow now

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Camping on a mountainside in Yosemite.!!

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Two-year-old Lucille Ball (1913)

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Wedding Bands that were removed from Holocaust victims prior to being executed, 1945. Each ring represents a destroyed family. Never forget.

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@vinylvanity1 @Aquaraye14 We should always remember the heroes of our country and the world.

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Please understand that this is not a picture of me. I found this story and thought to share it with all of you. A story to warm the heart it did mine.

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@diamondj1978 This link was sent to me by another Marine.

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Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth outside McDonald's, 1978.

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Born enslaved in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1858, Anna Julia Cooper started school at the age of nine. Nearly sixty years later, Anna received her Ph.D. in history at the age of sixty-six in 1924. (See ALT)

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This link provides more information regarding this photo.

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I just can't stop tweeting this cover.

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@Craigipedia Now, this is the way we got our shots. Every shot known to man. Don't move or it will rip your arm off.

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A British soldier who spent 2 yrs overseas is welcomed at the docks by his 8-month old baby in 1945.

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I believe that I've posted this before but it always gets me.

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@cher

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Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest, Romania, opened in 1888.

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This is Charles & Willa Bruce. In 1912 they bought prime beachfront land in Manhattan Beach, LA County, and built a Black resort community. In 1924 the county took it and refused to pay its value. On 30th September 2021, now worth $72 million, it was

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@sailingnut13 @slack2thefuture @SarahKSilverman Dan, do you have any children? I pay taxes for the local schools and have no children using those schools. I don't mind because I want our people to be educated so they don't end up like you.

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93-year-old William Colbert, who was photographed circa 1937 for the collection “Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves,” which was a project by the Works Progress Administration to collect first-person (See ALT)

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In 1973 Alice Cooper visited New York at the invitation of Salvador Dali. The artist wanted to make a piece centered around Alice Cooper. The finished piece was a hologram entitled “First Cylindric Chromo-Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper’s Brain.”

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A young Xi Jinping (right), now President of the People's Republic of China, on his first visit to the US, where he stayed with the Dvochak family in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1985.

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Posted this three years ago.

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Queen Elisabeth II and her corgis, Balmoral, 1976 by © Milton Gende

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After reading all the replies. I think a grilled cheese sandwich is in order.

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The Omaha WWII hero you need to know: Charles Jackson French

A Navy mess attendant swam hours through shark-infested waters to save shipmates

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100,000 Iranian women March against the Hijab Law, Tehran 1979

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George Orwell’s 1984 Eerily Predicted What Our Society Would Be Like Today, 72 Years Ago

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@minerva65324362 @ZenSammich I agree. We are working towards that goal. Make sure you vote in the mid-terms. We can't lose the house or the senate.

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Honoring Marine Staff Sgt. Dwayne E. Williams who selflessly sacrificed his life fifteen years ago today in Iraq for our great country. Please help me honor him so that he is not forgotten.

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@NancySinatra Orson Welles: "We drove to his uncle's house for calamari and on the way back we stopped for coffee. Our driver, as it happened, was a black man and the guy in the diner wouldn't serve him. Frank reached across the counter and grabbed this nine-foot (See ALT)

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Yosemite National Park, California, USA.

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Black children watching as white children play in a 'White's Only' park, 1956 This heartbreaking photo captures the reality of segregation in the United States during the 1950s. In the photo, a group of Black children are seen standing outside of a fenced-off park, (See ALT)

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A full nine months before Rosa Parks's famous act of civil disobedience, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested on March 2, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus.

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Posted this six years ago.

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Rep. Cummings: I am begging Americans to pay attention via @msnbc

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Loup Valley, Nebraska, 1866. Photograph of a Family with Their Covered Wagon During the Great Western Migration... A family poses with the wagon in which they live and travel daily during their pursuit of a homestead. Source: National Archives

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Posted this one year ago.

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returned to their descendants by Senate Bill 796.

Bruce's Beach - Wikipedia

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Raquel Welch and Ringo Starr during the filming of "The Magic Christian" in 1969.

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@k1mmmmmmmmm My mother had to raise three kids on her own and we ate that cheese with pleasure.

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@DavidW424 I've been on here for 11 years and only have a few thousand. I guess we are not interesting enough. I refuse to beg for followers but maybe you can give it a try. I didn't get on here for followers I just wanted to post things and found I like sticking it to trump every day.

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San Antonio, Texas, became the first city from the Old Confederacy to integrate lunch counters. 1960

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Why does this remind me of someone in Congress?

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Stevie Nicks, 1965 and 1975.

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Natalie Wood and Gypsy Rose Lee during the filming of Gypsy (1962).

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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak with the Apple-1 computer.

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Across 19 feet of canvas, Stephen Wiltshire drew 305 square miles of New York City with pinpoint accuracy — after only a single 20-minute helicopter ride. Learn more about this unbelievable autistic artist who can draw entire cityscapes from memory alone:

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Remember the smell? Does it bring back memories?

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Holding Donald Trump accountable is not an act of partisanship. It’s a defense of our democracy. “No one is above the law” is only true if we make it so. ~Robert Reich

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@DavidofSeattle I don't know but I did this one a couple of months back.

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A woman cuts into her birthday cake in Tehran, Iran in 1973. To see more photos of life in Iran before the Islamic Revolution,

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I remember when rock was young... Elton John on stage at Dodger Stadium, 1975. Photography by Terry O'Neill

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@doom_labs @allgood_pat We thank you for taking on the terrible burden of dealing with our trash. We enjoyed the break and will continue to smack his fat orange ass once he returns. Please apologize to the Queen and offer our thanks for dealing with the no manners slob.

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Trump doesn't know who The Proud Boys are? The group's founder, Gavin McInnes, has appeared on Hannity's Fox News show at least 24 times. Long-time Trump pal Roger Stone has been pictured with the Proud Boys flashing the “White Power” 👌🏻 on multiple occasions.

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@DC420LA @tunahaf @HealWithKasey I don't normally respond to comments like yours but want to let you know that I do these things not to be obedient but to protect other people. That's what Marines do we protect people that can't protect themselves. I don't believe the things I do are too much to ask.

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109 years old newspaper article predicting Global Warming.

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@AmyDeery @JeffreyGuterman @realDonaldTrump @FoxNews

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"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use — of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public." - Bobby Kennedy

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100,000 people in Berlin, marching for peace, and for Ukraine.

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This, at least 2000 years old olive tree, is called "The Thinking Tree" by the locals. It is located in Puglia, in the South of Italy.

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@donwinslow @SenatorSinema @kyrstensinema Great, now do Joe Manchin. And don't forget to include his daughter who raised the price of insulin on millions.

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Georgia’s first African-American congressman was born a slave. Jefferson Franklin Long was born in Alabama in 1836. His master sold him to a man in Macon. Long taught himself to read and write while setting type for the Macon newspaper. (See ALT)

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