A pic is worth a 1,000 words

by · December 4, 2013

SINGING THE BLUES

Sammy Davis Jr. photographed by Burt Glinn, 1959.

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COSTLY RABBIT STEW

Prisoner #4100, George Davey, age 10, sentenced to one month’s hard labour in Wandsworth Prison, London in 1872 for stealing two rabbits. Lost his virginity while in prison

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PLAY IT AGAIN, COMRADE!

A Soviet tank crew pause during the Battle of Breslau for musical accompaniment by a comrade and an abandoned organ. The Battle of Breslau was a three month long siege of the city of Breslau in Lower Silesia, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), lasting to the end of the war in Europe. From 13 February 1945 to 6 May 1945, German troops in Breslau were besieged by the Soviet forces which encircled the city as part of the Lower Silesian Offensive Operation. The German garrison’s surrender on 6 May was followed by the surrender of all German forces two days after the battle. Breslau, Lower Silesia, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). March 1945. Image taken by Anatoliy Egorov.

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