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I am what I am.

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Татьяна Николаевна и Мария Николаевна в Петергофском парке, 1907 год ГА РФ, ф. 673. оп. 1 д. 196 л. 17

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The changing face of Abraham Lincoln.

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1857 François-René Moreaux - Emperor Pedro II, his wife, Teresa Cristina, and their daughters, Princesses Isabel and Leopoldina

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Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg with her infant son Hans Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein. Marie Melita was a niece of Queen Marie of Romania through her mother Princess Alexandra of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who was a sister of her.

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1900s Princess Marie of Orléans (standing) and Princess Isabelle of Orléans (sitting) (photo by Carl Sonne)

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19 Black women you need to know about who broke boundaries and made beauty history

1. Madam C.J. Walker

Hair loss sparked Madam C.J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove) to develop a line of hair-care products just for African-American women in the early 1900s — and her entrepreneurial efforts led her to become one of the first female self-made millionaires in America.

2. Naomi Sims

After appearing on the November cover of Ladies’ Home Journal the year before, Sims made headlines when she graced the cover of LIFE magazine in 1969 — the first Black model to do so.

3. Beverly Johnson

American Vogue made history with its August 1974 cover featuring Beverly Johnson, who was the first Black woman to hold the honor. Johnson told NPR of the moment: “I realized that this was a huge responsibility that was placed on my shoulders as a way of really breaking the color barrier in the fashion industry.”

4. Tracey Norman

Tracey “Africa” Norman was the first Black transgender model to land a major cosmetics campaign. In the mid-1970s, she snagged a contract with hair color brand Clairol. Norman didn’t disclose that she was transgender at the time out of fear it might damage her career.

5. Lisa Price

In 1993, Lisa Price began developing hair and skin products out of her Brooklyn kitchen alongside her mother Carol. The now wildly popular brand, Carol’s Daughter, caters especially to women with natural, curly textures.

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19th Century Men’s Fashion [1850-1894]

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Sophia Alexandrovna Urusova by P.F. Sokolov.

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Greek Royal Family in exile 

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The audacity to come up with nonsense like ‘alternative facts’ and then accuse everyone else of lying is unbelievable.

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Immigrant children, Washington School. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. October 1909

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No human being is illegal.

Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, author of Night, and survivor of the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. (via caitrionabalfe)

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The U.S. Government Turned Away Thousands of Jewish Refugees, Fearing That They Were Nazi Spies

In a long tradition of “persecuting the refugee,” the State Department and FDR claimed that Jewish immigrants could threaten national security

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Perhaps our new President should take a look back before he’s so quick to turn away Syrian refugees.

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