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Children suffering initial stages of famine during the Holodomor, the artificial famine created by Stalin that ended up killing more than four million Ukrainians by blocking entire regions and depriving it of any food for years, 1932-34.

Homelessness, especially children homelessness, was a massive problem in the USSR after WWI, the revolution and the civil war: millions of children lost their parents and homes and were out on the streets, starving, dying, sometimes forming violent gangs. (It's all jokes until you're surrounded by a pack of emaciated 12-year-olds armed with shivs and knives)

And some people wonder why Ukraine hates Russia
 

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Jeremy Bamber (center) at the funeral of his parents, sister and nephews who he was later convicted of murdering at his family home of White House Farm. 1985

The White House Farm murders took place near the village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England, United Kingdom, during the night of 6–7 August 1985. Nevill and June Bamber were shot and killed inside their farmhouse at White House Farm along with their adopted daughter, Sheila Caffell, and Sheila's six-year-old twin sons, Daniel and Nicholas Caffell. The only surviving member of June and Nevill's immediate family was their adopted son, Jeremy Bamber, then 24 years old, who said he had been at home a few miles away when the shooting took place…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Farm_murders
 
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The National Trust conservator Samantha Taylor inspects a rare Elizabethan globe before it is moved into a new display case at Petworth House in West Sussex. The Molyneux globe, created in 1592, is the only surviving example of the first edition made by mathematician Emery Molyneux
Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA
 
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For 35 years, the Energy Department has pursued an all-of-the-above energy strategy — and the critical work done at the National Labs has helped put America at the top of the global clean energy race. This photo from 1979 shows a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employee opening the world's heaviest hinged door, which was eight feet thick, nearly twelve feet wide, and weighed 97,000 pounds. A special bearing in the hinge allowed a single person to open or close the concrete-filled door, which was used to shield the Rotating Target Neutron Source-II (RTNS-II) -- the world’s most intense source of continuous fusion neutrons. Scientists from around the world used it to study the properties of metals and other materials that could be used deep inside fusion power plants envisioned for the next century. | Photo courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
 
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This photo is from 1905 and was taken during a diphtheria epidemic at lleval hospital in Oslo, Norway.
Infectious diseases abounded, especially where people lived in cramped conditions. These women were visiting hospitalized relatives and had to stay outside to avoid becoming infected.
 
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Florence Thompson, the Migrant Mother in Dorothea Lange's famous 1936 photo, holds up her likeness during an interview after her identity was discovered, October 10, 1978

Thompson's identity was discovered in the late 1970s. In 1978, acting on a tip, Modesto Bee reporter Emmett Corrigan located Thompson at her mobile home in Space 24 of the Modesto Mobile Village and recognized her from the 42-year-old photograph. Thompson was quoted as saying: "I wish she [Lange] hadn't taken my picture. I can't get a penny out of it. She didn't ask my name. She said she wouldn't sell the pictures. She said she'd send me a copy. She never did." As Lange was funded by the federal government when she took the picture, the image was public domain, and Lange was not entitled to royalties. However, the picture did help make Lange a celebrity and earned her "respect from her colleagues."
 
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People called her Miss Morgan. And Miss Morgan was just five feet tall, slender, dressed in drab, fragile looking. There was something Quakerish about her people said. When she spoke, she did so softly. But when she issued orders it was with the finality of a Marine drill sergeant. Miss Morgan was Julia Morgan.

And Julia was an architect. One who graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in Civil Engineering in 1894. One who waited for two years for admission into the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris because of her gender. And then became the first woman to graduate. And then she became the first woman to be registered as an architect in California.

In 1904, Julia opened her own architectural firm. Where she shared profits with her workers. And where her career lasted 42 years. Over which she designed about 790 structures, including Hearst Castle.
 
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Two diamond bracelets worn by Marie Antoinette are to be auctioned for millions of euros in the latest sale to capitalise on the global craze for the French queen. The bracelets, coated with 112 stones and which can be linked and worn as a necklace, are likely to fetch well above their $4 million top estimate at Christie’s in Geneva in November because of a roaring trade in the possessions of the 18th-century châtelaine of Versailles and wife of Louis XVI.
 
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This statue of Mongolian warlord Genghis Kahn sits on top of a museum near the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. It is 131 feet tall; one of the 100 tallest statues in the world. Those dots you can see on the horse’s mane are people.

The United States and Mongolia have signed a cultural accord, a Peace Corps accord, and a consular convention. English has been compulsory in Mongolian schools since 2005, and interest among Mongolians in learning English and studying in the United States increases every year. Since 2011, the Government of Mongolia has committed $600,000 annually to co-fund the Fulbright masters’ program, tripling the number of Mongolians who study in the United States under this initiative. In addition, more than 1,500 Mongolians study at U.S. colleges and universities, some via private scholarships. Approximately 120 Mongolians travel to the United States every year on U.S. government-funded educational, professional, and cultural exchange programs. Since 2017, 20 Mongolian high students a year participate in the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) program. U.S. and Mongolian legislators also participate in exchanges in which they share information and experiences about democracy and institutional reform. Created in 2007, Mongolia’s alumni network, the Mongolian
 
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Volunteers from the National Air Raid Precautions Animal Committee (NARPAC) carry a dog injured during an air raid, into a London animal hospital (1940).

NARPAC was created just before the outbreak of the Second World War to provide information to the general public about animal protection during air raids – for pets but also for farm and working animals.

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February 6
Waitangi, New Zealand

Neve Ardern Gayford, daughter of Jacinda Ardern, watches proceedings at Beat the Retreat on a national holiday that celebrates the signing of the treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840 by Maori chiefs and the British crown, that granted the Maori people the rights of British citizens and ownership of their lands

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little girl says, ' i have to pee'.
 
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8 February 1942 – The Battle of Singapore begins when Japanese forces invade the British stronghold.

The fighting in Singapore lasted from 8 to 15 February 1942, after the two months during which Japanese forces had advanced down the Malayan Peninsula. The British stronghold in Singapore was deemed to be an impregnable fortress. The British air and naval bases commissioned in 1939 and 1941 respectively were impressive and intimidating. The King George VI Graving Dock at the naval base was the largest dry dock in the world, scaling a full 300 meters to show the capacity of the British Malayan Navy.

Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival, right, led by a Japanese officer, walks under a flag of truce to negotiate th
It was the largest surrender of British-led forces in history.

The Japanese were very swift, employing bicycles as a means of movement through the jungle terrain. Using a combination of bicycles and collapsible boats, they outflanked and encircled the British army in North Malaya, cutting off their supply lines. On 31 January 1942, the causeway at Johore Baharu which linked Malaya and Singapore was blown up by the Japanese, resulting in a fifty-metre gap. The Battle of Singapore ended with the surrender of the British on 15th February 1942, by which time half of Singapore was already occupied by the Japanese.

Some of the British, Australian, Indian and Chinese forces captured by Japanese forces
This defeat was a crushing blow to the British Empire, and one that signalled the start of the defection of Australia’s foreign policy away from the United Kingdom. Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, told Churchill that Australia would regard the act of surrender as an inexcusable betrayal.

The British prime minister, Winston Churchill, called it the “worst disaster” in British military history.
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The brits had the shelter, the men, the weapons the food, the japs could not have take this site- it was a damn disgrace.
 
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