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accadacca
04-10-2014, 08:05 AM
17 year old Jan Rose Kasmir offers a flower to soldiers during the Pentagon anti-war protest in 1967.

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Marc Riboud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rose_Kasmir)
A Brazilian protester stands before gunfire during protests against corruption and police brutality.

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Sergeant Frank Praytor looks after a two-week old kitten during the height of the Korean War.

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A curious Afghan girl holds the hand of an American soldier.

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Soldier_Scott68 on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/user/Soldier_Scott68)
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Sally Mann (http://sallymann.com/)
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theatlantic.com (http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/heavy-rain-floods-batter-philippines/100578/)
A North Korean waves at his South Korean brother after inter-Korean temporary family reunions.

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Thania Sayne leans on the headstone of her husband the day before their wedding anniversary on 16 October 2013.

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Manuel Balce Ceneta (http://www.corbisimages.com/photographer/manuel-balce-ceneta)
Anna Fisher, astronaut, with stars in her eyes on the cover of Life magazine in 1985. She was the first mother in space.

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Life Magazine (1985) (http://life.time.com/)
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Wojtek Kalka (http://500px.com/photo/4617733)




A journalist dashes across a bridge between to rescue a baby during Civil War. [1936]

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Horace Abrahams (https://www.photographersgallery.com/by_artist.asp?id=79)
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Carlo Meoni (https://www.flickr.com/people/48176930@N04/)
A Rwandan boy left scared after being liberated from a death camp.

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James Nachtwey (http://news.distractify.com/people/complex-humans/www.jamesnachtwey.com)
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Alex Elle (http://alexelle.com/post/81947377774/my-silly-girl-and-i)
Hamid Sardar captures a tribal Chhetri woman in Nepal. [2009]

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Hamid Sardar (http://hamidsardarphoto.com/)
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A boy crosses a London street in the 1960s with a toy double decker.

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Notman Photographics Archives (http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/explore.php?Lang=1&tableid=4&tablename=department&elementid=00016__true)
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Vladimir Zotov (http://500px.com/photo/3145496?from=popular)
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BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26248275)
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Share On Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.distractify.com%2Fp eople%2Fcomplex-humans%2F%3Fv%3D1)



Captain Donald Spindler pulls 6 year-old Aaliyah Frazier from a fire in Indiana

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Evansville Courier & Press (http://www.courierpress.com/)
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Daniel Becerril (http://widerimage.reuters.com/photographer/daniel-becerril)
A man protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing [1989]

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Stuart Franklin (http://www.stuartfranklin.com/)
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Itsuo Inouye (http://www.corbisimages.com/photographer/itsuo-inouye)
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Jeff Bailey (http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1g1qq5/at_my_friends_wedding_her_vows_were_excellent/)
Violinist, Nancy Dinovo, cries while playing during a service at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver for the September 11 victims.

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Christopher J. Morris (http://www.christophermorrisphotography.com/)
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Eric Lafforgue (http://ericlafforgue.com/)
The child of a KKK member touches his reflection in an African American police officer's riot shield during a demonstration. [1992]

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Todd Robertson (http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/199985/how-kkk-rally-image-found-new-life-20-years-after-it-was-published/attachment/kkktoddrobertsonphoto/)
Clara Gantt is reunited with her husband's body after more than 60 years. Sergeant Joseph Grantt went missing during the Korean war.

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Luis Sinco (http://mediastorm.com/contributor/luis-sinco/114)




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Willy Ronis (http://www.jacksonfineart.com/willy-ronis-567.html)
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"100,000 monks in prayer for a better world"

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Luke Duggleby (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/20/close_encounters_of_the_buddhist_kind?page=0,0#0)
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Skater girls in Tehran.

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Humans Of Tehran (https://www.facebook.com/HumansOfTehran)
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Julia Noni (http://www.missmoss.co.za/2013/08/19/jeneil-williams-for-vogue-germany/)
10 year old Yemeni girl smiling after she was granted a divorce from her husband - a grown adult.

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Stephanie Sinclair (http://www.stephaniesinclair.com/)
3 weeks old infant with albinism snuggles up to his cousin for a snooze.

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Patricia Willocq (http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/nirvana_images/ngpc-2013/2013/11/30/238629_dsc00801--cb1385827600.jpg)
Lt. Colonel Robert L. Stirm is reunited with his family after being taken prisoner during the Vietnam war.

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National Geographic (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/photo-contest/2010/entries/gallery/people-week-10/)
An Irish teenager yells at British soldiers during unrest in Northern Ireland

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Steve McCurry (http://stevemccurry.com/)
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Dr. Religa monitors his patient's vitals after a 23 hour long heart transplant surgery. His assistant is sleeping in the corner. [1987]

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J. Steinfeld, National Geographic 1987. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/)
The patient not only survived the surgery, but outlived his doctor.

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mellowmonk on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1wsr47/greeneyed_girl_from_nepal/)
Protester plays piano over the sounds of chaos, with riot police in the backdrop.

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The DO Art Foundation (http://thedoartfoundation.tumblr.com/)
Supporters celebrate as Minnesota legalizes gay marriage

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Denver Post (http://www.denverpost.com/digitalfirstmedia/ci_23243801/minnesota-legalizes-gay-marriage-gov-dayton-signs-bill)
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Eric Lafforgue (http://news.distractify.com/people/complex-humans/www.ericlafforgue.com)
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Vincent Kessler (http://widerimage.reuters.com/photographer/vincent-kessler)
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The tattoo of wounded soldier Kyle Hockenberry becomes truth

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Laura Rauch (http://www.laurarauch.com/)
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Aleksandr Romanov (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/photo-contest/2011/users/856558/)
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Phil Marion (http://500px.com/PhilMarion)
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anninhthudo.vn (http://www.anninhthudo.vn/Su-kien/Gian-nan-hanh-trinh-ve-que-an-Tet-cua-nguoi-Trung-Quoc/432226.antd)
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A bus of caring people save a woman who tried to commit suicide in China.

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scnews.com (http://scnews.newssc.org/system/2010/06/25/012783701.shtml)
Agim Shala is passed through a barbed wire fence to his grandparents at a camp for refugees of the Kosovo War

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Carol Guzy (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/photo/bestofthepost/guzycarol/)
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Wakil Kohsar (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kohsar-Photojournalist/211937932294652)
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DiscGo
04-10-2014, 08:50 AM
Very enjoyable post.

accadacca
04-10-2014, 08:51 AM
Very enjoyable post.

Tks dude. I really enjoyed it too.

Moose Droppings
04-10-2014, 12:07 PM
interesting list. i'll add one.

#61

The Most Beautiful Suicide.
72668

"...Evelyn, still clutching a pearl necklace, looks disarmingly placid and composed

Moose Droppings
04-10-2014, 12:10 PM
#62

Inside the Auschwitz gas chamber.

72669

Scott Card
04-10-2014, 02:19 PM
Yikes, Moose Droppings. Those are quite chilling....