Ferdinand Porsche (dark suit, left of picture) introduces a prototype model of the VW Beetle to Adolf Hitler (approx. mid 1930s)

Time magazine published an article on how Al-Qaeda had failed to cause chaos and infamy after 9/11. It is an excellent article, and I will paraphrase/reproduce it here:

c.1879-190:
Albert Einstein as a child

March on Washington, 1963

These photos were taken in San Francisco in the late 90s at one of the first medical marijuana dispensaries. You could go in and buy the weed you wanted and sit down and smoke it. Everyone was nice and friendly. I spent five days stoned out of my gourd, taking pictures. A membership was required to enter, but as a journalist, I was allowed in without one. Somehow I’ve forgotten the name of the place, which was located off Market Street near Van Ness and is now defunct.

When the very first photos from Belsen Bergen and Buchenwald concentration camps were released in the late April 1945, the general public was incredulous. Yes, they had read the newspapers and heard the rumors, but they didn’t necessarily believe them, dismissing them as typical wartime propaganda by exiled governments. There were precedents, too: during World War I, it had been widely rumored that the Germans on the Western Front were melting down human bodies for fat

Bonnie and Clyde in a photo found at one of their hide outs after a police raid. Joplin Missouri 1933