Lacemakers in Brittany, France, 1920 [960x1200]

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Portrait of Caucasian nobleman from Imeretia Ovalyani, taken in the studio of photographer Ermakov, Tbilisi, Georgia around 1890 [776x900]

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Cannabis rights activist Ben Masel smoking a joint while voting in the 1976 Presidential election. Taking advantage of an apparent law that prohibits arrest while voting. [568x768]

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Hitler justifies the invasion of Poland. Hitler speech of September 1, 1939. [1200x673]

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One of only two certified photographs of Billy the Kid (top hat). Playing cards with his accomplices. 1877 [3,581 x 2,313]

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Eskimo mother and child in Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska 1927 [803x1024]

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Thousands stand at the 1938 Nuremberg Rally. [870x1218] (Colourized)

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The only known color photograph of the Russian Czar's fabled Amber Room - looted by the Nazi's this unique, priceless work of art was lost for ever (maybe?). St Petersburg, 1943 [900x665]

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A man exercises using a rowing machine in the gym aboard the RMS Titanic, 1912. [900x699]

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Photograph of the first official defector of the German Democratic Republic, Conrad Schumann, who escaped to the western side on August 15, 1961 after jumping the unfinished area of ​​the fence that he guarded. [1058x595]

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A desperate man during the Great Depression 1930 [933x677]

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7’3” Jakob Nacken (221 cm), the tallest German soldier of WW2, chatting with 5’3” (160 cm) British corporal Bob Roberts after surrendering to him near Calais, France, 1944.(1000X1408) [Colorized]

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1980, eruption of Mt. Saint Helens as viewed by climbers on nearby Mt. Adams.[660x1014]

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Two girls gallop full speed on sheep in Cornwall, England 1969 [1000x726]

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Manhattan in 1931 (750x581)

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Egyptian men watch as the Graf Zeppelin floats over the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, while atop the Great Pyramid of Khufu. 1931. [1600x1637]

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Statue of David by Michelangelo, encased in bricks to prevent damage from bombs, during world war 2 (455×674)

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Piotr Chemy, a young Polish man who survived a concentration camp, is readied for his execution after being convicted of murdering a German family. The family had found him wandering on a snowy night, fed him, and gave him a bed. Chemy killed them as they slept, Landsberg Prison, 1947 [840 x 1200].

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A group of Samurai went on a tourist tour in Egypt and took a photo in front of Sphinx, 1864 [1,200 × 803]

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Visiting quarantined family and friends at Ulleval Hospital, Oslo - Photo by Anders Beer Wilse - 1905 [729 x 960]

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Eskimo man wearing gut parka holding string of fish, Nome, Alaska, between 1898 and 1900 [493x610]

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Parents and sister of Christa Macauliffe watching the space shuttle Challenger explode at the Kennedy Space Center, January, 1986. [640x723]

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August 23, 1902, Providence, Rhode Island. U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt delivers his Trust Speech and warns of prosperity being concentrated in the hands of the few, particulary large corporations. (Colorized) [1280X1661]

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The 101st Airborne Division’s “Filthy Thirteen”volunteer pathfinders preparing to parachute into France just after midnight on June 6, 1944. They were among the first allied troops to set foot on French soil on D-Day; their mission was to mark drop zones for the airborne assault. [960x720]

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A Vietnamese female fighter captured an American pilot , Dewey Wayne Waddell in 1967. [960x952]

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A woman attemps to shield her child with her own body just before they are executed by Nazi death squad (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivangorod, Ukraine. 1942 [828x512]

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Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy is married to Greek magnate Aristotle Onassis, 1968 [980×1454]

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Chief of Staff Andy Card whispers into the ear of President George W. Bush to give him word of the plane crashes into the World Trade Center, during a visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota. Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. [ 947x767]

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Robin Williams as a Denver Broncos cheerleader, 1979 [570x856]

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Sir Winston Churchill, in 1895, age 20. [1080x1350]

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78 years ago today, 9/2/1945, Japan's surrender delegation boards the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to end World War II. [5748x4504]

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Father James Coyle, famous for being murdered by KKK for performing an interracial marriage, Alabama unknown date [389x512]

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[1940] Definition of Keep Calm. Milkman delivering milk right after The London Blitz. Touched up and colorized [1042x700]

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The current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, with his first teacher. 1990s. [1182 x 866]

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Little John F. Kennedy Jr. waiting for his Dad, President John F. Kennedy to land at Camp David, Maryland in October 1963. JFK was assassinated the very next month. [1080 x 1344]

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Poon Lim, a Chinese sailor who survived alone adrift on this life raft for 133 days, eventually being rescued in 1943 off the coast of Brazil. (960x794)

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Children in Newcastle upon Tyne’s West End gather and play on piled-up mattresses, England 1981 [1800x1168]

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Trinh To Tam being awarded the Heroic American Killer medal for the 53rd time, 1971 [576x768]

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1971, A Little Boy Running Away From Injection , Terrified of Being Vaccinated Against Cholera at a Refugee Camp Outside Calcutta,India [1024 x 807]

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Mother and baby of family of nine living in field on U.S. Route 70 near the Tennessee River, March 1936, [1024 x 1408]

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A Native American and White couple, El Reno, Oklahoma taken between 1889 and 1907 [564x840]

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Russian Orthodox priest wearing deerskin, taken in 1901. [973x1203]

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“The Thousand Yard Stare”—USMC Private Theodore J. Miller is helped aboard a ship after intense combat on Eniwetok Atoll. Miller was KIA a month later, 1944. [640x505]

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A woman mourns after the US Navy downs an Iranian passenger jet on 3 July 1988, carrying 290 civilians including 66 children [1098x682]

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First King of Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud with his sons Prince Faisal (on the left) and Prince Saud (on the right) in the early 1950s [1000 × 1406]

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Terry Butcher drenched in blood after sustaining a head wound in a World Cup qualifier against Sweden (1989) [828 x 995]

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John Lewis smiles while getting his mugshot taken after being arrested for using a “white” bathroom in segregated Mississippi in 1961 [343 x 467]

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Today in 1926, Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week. [1744x2226]

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Press photographers and police snipers lie side by side on a roof opposite the Kreditbanken bank on Norrmalmstorg square in Stockholm. A misfired robbery turned into a six-day standoff that gave birth to the phrase Stockholm syndrome (Stockholm, Sweden 1973) [2048x1471]

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Old women with tattoos characteristic for Croatian Catholics in Bosnia. The tradition is called sicanje, and it was originally used to protect against the Ottomans. Central Bosnia, 1930s - 1940s. [1144x1280]

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Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1925 [900x818]

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People fighting to get on a plane in Nha Trang, April 1, 1975, during the US withdrawal from South Vietnam. [1280x1910]

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O.J. Simpson holding hands with his children Justin and Sydney at the funeral of their mother, and his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson Brown following her murder, Los Angeles, June 16, 1994. [2649 x 3287]

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Harry S. Truman as a captain during WWI, 1918. [679x1024]

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Photo taken shortly before the Omagh car bombing in 1998 by the 'Real IRA'. The bomb is in the red car and would kill 29 people including the photographer. The father and daughter however survived. The child's face appears to be censored. [700x611]

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A beach in Iran a few months before the Islamic Revolution, 1979 [620x406]

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Adolf Hitler gets gift from two Santa Clauses during a Christmas party given by the Chief of the Chancellery in Berlin, 25th December 1937. [750x445]

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Walt Disney with the original Mickey Mouse Club lineup. 1955 [1,964 x 1,549]

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German and a Soviet officer shaking hands at the end of the Invasion of Poland, October 1939 [816×564]

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Marilyn Monroe performing for thousands of American troops in Korea, 1954 [1126x1600{

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The last known photograph of Tsar Nicholas II, seen with his wife Alexandra, c. August 1917 [560x432]

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Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials, 30 July 1938, on his 75th birthday, (1200x800)

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Itamar Ben-Gvir, a 19-year-old Kahanist, holds an ornament which he stole from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's car. On live TV, he declared, We got to his car, and we'll get to him too. Weeks later, Rabin was assassinated. Ben-Gvir is now Israel's Minister of National Security, 1995 [1389 x 589].

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Finnish soldiers in NBC gear, 1961 [3000x3000].

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What is now the fully developed Las Vegas strip, 1955. [494 x 492]

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Two brothers from West Virginia who fought on opposite sides of the American Civil War in 1910 [640x800]

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Victims of the Zoot Suit Riots, where groups of U.S. servicemen scoured the streets in Los Angeles looking for, attacking and stripping Mexican-American teenagers wearing zoot suits. June, 1943 [2997 × 2392]

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A US Marine carries his 1919 Browning machine gun during the freezing Korean winter during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in December 1950. [640x823]

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In response to the Anti-Japanese sentiment that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese-American Citizens League opened the Anti-Axis Committee Office on December 14, 1941. It was part of their campaign to demonstrate the loyalty of American-born Japanese citizens to the US. [800x641]

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14 year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. being lead to the execution chamber where he was executed by electric chair at South Carolina Penitentiary. The youngest person executed in the USA. June 16, 1944 (220x211)

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Indian soldiers(Then British Army) in Egypt after a successful campaign in WWI. Indian soldiers had defeated Turkish Forces who had attacked the Suez Canal. Turkish Forces had faced heavy losses, and had lost 2000 of it's men. 1915, [640 x 450]

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[Colorized] Three scout girls collect peach pits, which will later be processed to make gas mask filters during World War I. Washington, 1917-1918 [1271x961]

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25 years ago yesterday, Jurassic Park: The Ride officially opened at Universal Studios Hollywood. Here, Steven Spielberg and Jeff Goldblum lift the torches for the ride's grand opening on June 21, 1996. [800 x 656]

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1972: British schoolgirls in Hyde Park, London protest caning, a form of corporal punishment. [1890X1372]

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Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo) resting on the desert with the Amour mountain range in the distance, French Algeria. (Small groups of those lions lived in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco to the mid-1960s) Photograph c. 1893. [800 x 546]

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Two moonshiners arrested by federal agents near St. Paul, Minnesota, 1921. [750x939]

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Photograph entitled Wait for Me, Daddy. It shows a child running to his father, a Canadian soldier, before being deployed during The Second World War. Behind you can see his mother. October 1, 1940.[800x1029]

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This 7 feet (2.13 meters) sword belonged to Pier Gerlofs Donia aka Grutte Pier, a 16th century Frisian rebel leader who was slightly taller than his sword. Picture was taken in 1951 at the Museum of Friesland in Leeuwarden, Holland, where the sword is still on display today. [990x1309]

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Truman placed a wreath at the monument of the Los Ninos Heroes(1947). 6 Mexican cadets who would rather die than surrender during the Mexican-American war. Asked why he made the visit, Truman said simply, Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.[488x366]

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French soldiers passing by a dog wearing googles and smoking a pipe, 1915 [610x610]

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The opening of the first tax-supported public library in the US, Peterborough, NH, 1833 [647 × 474]

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Nancy Pelosi with U.S President John F. Kennedy, during Kennedy’s inauguration as president - 1961 [680x784]

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Canadian Liberal Leader Pierre Trudeau with his press secretary Suzanne Perry (Matthew Perry's mother), Ottawa, February 1980, photographer Boris Spremo [1200 x 1810]

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One of the many selfies that Emperor Nicholas II took throughout his life, (1868-1918). [736x551]

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Berlin, 1923. Less than five years after the end of the Great War, Germany economy lies in ruins. A disabled war veteran begs in the street dressed in his pre-war dunkelblau waffenrock. [Colorization] [1795×1193]

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Pyramid of German helmets in celebration of victory, Grand central, New York, 1919. [1400x1153]

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Dean Martin with his daughter Gail and Frank Sinatra with his daughter Nancy on The Dean Martin Show Christmas episode in 1967. [1000x1506]

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Two autistic kids tied to the radiator of an asylum. Spain, 1982. [1242 x 1430]

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Tsar Nicholas II kissing his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, ca. 1890's [750x1036]

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Today is the memorial of Oscar Romero, the archbishop martyred for his outspoken defense of El Salvador’s poor. Assassinated by government death squad while celebrating Holy Mass. Canonized as a saint in 2018 (c. 1978) [631x717]

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Mobsters hide their faces at Al Capone's trial 1931. 700 x 525

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The mass murder-suicide of 909 followers of the People's Temple cult of Jim Jones, Jonestown Guyana, 1978. [1200x1200]

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A smiling girl in a kimono on New Year's Day. Japan, 1914 [2164x3000]

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Salvador Dali painting The Face of War, 1940. [813x102O]

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Last sword duel in history in France, 1967 between the Mayor of Marseille and the Socialist Party candidate for presidency. [1600 x 1136]

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Another great photo out of Pennsylvania, circa 1890-1900. I think the woman on the left is pulling the shutter release to take this photo. The woman in the middle is holding another camera. This one required a lot of clean up, but it did clean up nicely. From my glass negative collection. (640x800)

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“The Drunk Basket.” In the 1960s, bars in Istanbul would hire someone to carry drunk people back to their homes. [612 × 765]

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The Duke of York, later King George VI of Great Britain on a slide at the Wembley exhibition, England. 1925.[1170x1402]

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Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen stands next to his third wife, Dagmar Freuchen-Gale. He is wearing a polar bear coat made from a bear he killed himself, 1947 (572x699)

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Photo of a British man wearing a chain around the neck of Aborigines, who are natives of Australia. 1900's , [900x899]

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A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbour with her veil to protect her, Sarajevo, 1941. [599×389]

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Female Volunteers with M16-A1 rifles during an IRA training exercise in N.Ireland, 1977 [2960X2000]

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Jean Bedel Bokassa during his coronation ceremony to make himself Emperor Bokassa The First, Central African Republic 1977. The ceremony wasted a third of the CARs entire annual fiscal budget. (1920x1080)

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City of Detroit back in its prime, Circa 1940s. Once the wealthiest city in the world, its decline was cemented when automobile companies began their exodus in favor of foreign manufacturing, that promised cheaper labor [1200x835]

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George N. Barnard's 1864 photograph of a slave trader's business on Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia, shows a United States Colored Troop Infantryman [Corporal] just by the door. [2446 × 1955]

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A Boy and his owl, 1933. [736x477]

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Lee Harvey Oswald being escorted by a detective, moments before being shot by Jack Ruby (in the grey fedora on the right). November 24, 1963. [2537x3000]

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Two of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the cave where they were found, 1947 [555x375]

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Georgia State Patrol trooper Allen Campbell stares at child drawn to reflection in his shield at Ku Klux Klan rally in Gainesville, GA on Sep. 5, 1992. Said Campbell, Me and this kid, neither one made a choice to be here. The state patrol made me come, and his mom and daddy brought him. [580x757]

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A boy holding a stuffed animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1945. his mother, father and brother all dead and buried under the rubble. [1542x1600]

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A Romanian sub-officer gives the victory sign on New Year's Eve 1989 in the aftermath of the revolution. He has removed the insignia of communist Romania from his ushanka. [1870x2800]

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African-American boys on Easter morning, Southside, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941 [Colorized] [1300 x 1025]

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Margaret Trudeau, estranged wife of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, dances at New York City's Studio 54, May 23, 1979. A few hours earlier her husband conceded defeat in the Canadian elections. [898 x 1024]

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The Thing aka the Great Seal Bug. On 4th August, 1945, a group of Soviet school children presented to W. Averell Harriman (The US Ambassador to the USSR) with a carved US Seal as gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device. [ 1080x695 ]

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Knife thrower and child in 1940s [960x710]

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88 year old Winston Churchill flashes his famous 'V for Victory' hand sign. June 19th, 1963. [960x789]

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Chinese-American war worker in Los Angeles wore a handwritten sign in his back to avoid being mistaken for Japanese 1942. [600 x 472]

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Astronaut Neil Armstrong's wife & sons watch the liftoff of Apollo 11 - July 16 1969 [1336x2048]

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[Colorized] Alexei Nikolaevich, last Tsarevich of the Russian Empire, c.1911. Original in comments. [516x1024]

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1947: Jewish refugees arrive in Palestine with a banner proclaiming: The Germans destroyed our families and homes - don't you destroy our hopes.. (1125x603)

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On 18 March 1965 Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov steps from the spacecraft Voskhod 2 to become the first man to walk in outer space. He was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes and 9 seconds (Outer Space 1965) [2867x2059]

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Arnie supporting Disables Athletes in the early 1990's (4567 × 5514)

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