Captain Sir Mansfield Cummings, head of the MI6 during WW1, discovered you can use semen as invisible ink

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Great Grandfather

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King George V & Tsar Nicholas II together (1913)

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111 years ago today, 25 year old Adolf Hitler enlists to fight in the German army. By the wars end, he will have risen to the rank of Corporal and earned two Iron Crosses for bravery on the battlefield.

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My great-grandfather at the start of ww1 and ww2. 1914 and 1940

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A Rare Shot Of A Young Winston Churchill, 1895.

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Soviet general Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin,the most prolific executioner in history,killed tens of thousands by his own hand,he personally killed 7000 Polish prisoners during the katyn massacre in 1940.

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Fascist leader Mussolini was executed and his body was disfigured beyond recognition by the public. (April 28, 1945)

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An Italian man named Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, hid it in his apartment for two years and then contacted the owner of an art gallery in Italy, expecting a reward for returning the painting to what he regarded as its "homeland". He only served 7 months in jail

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My grandfather's graduation photo from Yale medical school, 1927.

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Man with Down’s syndrome, 1890s

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In April 1944, the CEO of America's largest mail-order retailer was forcibly removed from his office by the Army National Guard after refusing to negotiate with workers under the National War Labor Board, leading to the U.S. War Department seizing control of the company. (1944)

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King George V and his cousin Tsar Nicholas II in German military uniforms in 1913.