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everyday_i_show: photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson

http://everyday-i-show.livejournal.com/85173.html An African-American student is denied entry to a theater. He keeps his hands in his pockets to demonstrate that his protest is nonviolent, 1961.

38 Vintage Political Posters of World War II

Karl von Clausewitz once wrote in his book, On War , that “ war is just politics by other means”. Taking into consideration that politics basically means the process in which people make collective decisions, the following posters produced here in the US back in World War II are prime examples of how our various federal agencies have motivated the public back then to make the best, most productive decisions during those trying times. Click on the individual images to find out more about each poster design’s history and origin. http://blog.largeformatposters.com/smart-design/38-vintage-political-posters-of-world-war-ii/
Posted Aug 07, 2010 HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — The 65th anniversary event at the site of the world’s first A-bomb attack echoed with the choirs of schoolchildren and the solemn ringing of bells Friday as Hiroshima marked the occasion. At 8:15 a.m. – the time the bomb dropped, incinerating most of the city – a moment of silence was observed. On Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

On War: The dropping of the Atomic Bomb, 65 years later | Plog — World news photography, Photos — The Denver Post

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Captured: Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900’s | Plog — World news photography, Photos — The Denver Post

Posted Oct 21, 2009 The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people.