14 Pictures from the Darker Side of Life

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Jewish women before their execution in Skede, Latvia, December 15-17, 1941

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Wedding bands that were removed from holocaust victims before they were executed

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A patient is restrained in a mental institution in France in 1900

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Reasons for Admission to Insane Asylums in the 19th Century

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Edward Coy lynched in Texarkana for allegedly raping a white woman, 1892

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Letter from a trapped coal miner saying goodbye to his wife, Tennessee 1902

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The dates tell the story

8.

Fuck Drunk Drivers

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After 12 years of torture in a Hawaiian circus , Tyke the elephant finally managed to escape during a live performance in August of 94. Injuring staff on her way out,police shot her 86 times , in the street which eventually killed her. The look in her eyes tells a thousand stories

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Scott Hutchison last tweets before he committed suicide

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Posted during an active shooter situation at a nearby high school

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Members of the Bontoc Igorrote tribe from the Philippines on display in the “Human Zoo” in Coney Island, New York, 1905

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Julius Popper hunting for members of indigenous tribes as part of the Selk’nam genocide in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina in 1896. Large companies paid a bounty for each dead native, which was confirmed on presentation of a pair of hands or ears, or later a complete skull.

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Train driver in agony after a woman commits suicide by jumping into the imcoming train