Yes, that is the very first known selfie, taken in 1839 by an amateur chemist and photography enthusiast from Philadelphia named Robert Cornelius. To capture this image, he set his camera up at the back of the family store in Philadelphia and took the image by removing the lens cap and then running

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The caption reads "Corporal Edward Burckhardt, of Yonkers, New York, sports a kitten that he found at the base of Suribachi Yama on the battlefield at Iwo Jima when he came ashore with the 5th Marine Division." From the Holland M. Smith Collection (COLL/2949) at the Marine Corps History Division OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH

Same place, different time. This is amazing. Hauntingly beautiful.

Crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-E Day, 5/8/1945

War is a horribly fascinating thing, however much man may hate it.

Every year since the World Press Association gathers in Amsterdam to pick a picture of the year. Here's every photo that's won from the past 55 years or so. Powerful stuff.

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Rationing in WW II. England.

Czeslawa Kwoka, a Polish child killed in Auschwitz. The Nazi soldier would kill children with phenol injections. The child was place on a stool, blindfolded with a towel, then injected in the chest with a needle. They wouldn't wait for the child to die; instead they threw the child into the next room to die in agony within a few minutes. Then another child would take the stool. "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

On Sept. 2, 1945, representatives of the empire of Japan formally surrendered to the Allies aboard the Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. These images captured by press and military photographers rec…

Millions of Jews were rounded up and shipped off to die as the Nazi regime which came to power 80 years ago in Germany - set about the systematic 'cleansing' of the country. But many children escaped.