Yoshihiro Hattori in San Francisco. He was a Japanese student on an exchange program to the US. On 17 October 1992, he was shot to death in Baton Rouge when, on his way to a Halloween party, he went to the wrong house by mistake. The killer was acquitted (San Francisco, California 1992) [1200x1200]

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Gene Cernan smiling for the camera, with his suit caked in lunar dust. December 13, 1972. [4400x4600]

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Eskimo girls holding puppies, Alaska ca. 1904 [740x600]

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Ronald Reagan poses at the University of Southern California in 1940. He was chosen as an example of the ideal male body by the school's fine arts department. [923x649]

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Louis Armstrong playing for his wife, Egypt, 1961. [1080x818]

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On this day in 1992, a 27-pound (12.37 kg) meteorite hit Michelle Knapp's newly-purchased $300 1980 Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. She sold the car to a meteorite collector and dealer for $25,000. The car is on display in Paris today. [1024X768]

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The mugshot of Sergei Korolev, Soviet Ukrainian rocket engineer, the man responsible for the first human spaceflight, soon after his arrest by Stalin's secret police in 1938. While in custody he was severely beaten by the NKVD henchmen. He remained incarcerated until 1944 [1408 x 990]

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The Italian Royal Family in 1922 [Colorized] [2560x1574]

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Unangax/Aleut hunter, Ivan Suvorov wearing a gut parka with a large harpoon, Umnak Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska in 1909 [679x1000]

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Born in Japan, 1751 and died in July 7, 1977 at a grand old age of 226, koi Hanako was the oldest koi fish ever recorded. [1284 x 894]

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Soviet tanks interrupt young couple wedding. Soviet invasion to Czechoslovakia, 1968 [720x552]

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Werner von Clemm was a prominent and well-connected banker who smuggled diamonds stolen from Holocaust victims in the Netherlands and Belgium into the United States. Werner was one of countless bankers who helped smuggle Nazi loot from occupied territories, New York, 1942 [1041 x 1280].

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Adolf Hitler with a unit of the Luftwaffe Fallschirmjager called The Green devils who captured the belgian fort at Eben Emael on 11 May , June 1940 , [Colorized] , [978×738]

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The First Permanent Photograph. 1825. [1280 x 890]

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One of the only pictures ever taken of Edward VIII's highly secret departure from Windsor, the day after his abdication. En route to Portsmouth, where he would board HMS Fury for Boulogne. [12 December 1936 | 620 x 387]

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1977: West Side Highway in Manhattan. [2048X1418]

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Jewish youths rescued from Auschwitz show their camp tattoos while aboard a refugee ship, July 15th, 1945 (1141x1134)

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1858 picture of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II. Fun fact: Persian word for Mongol is “Mughal”, it’s often overlooked that India fell under Mongol rule. First emperor was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. [600x338]

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This 1870 image is considered the first actual photograph taken of a battle. Taken during the Franco-Prussian war, it shows a line of Prussian troops advancing. The photographer stood with the French defenders when he captured this image. [2174x1280]

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Hitler reacts to a kiss from an excited American women at the 1936 Olympic Games (1400 x 976)

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Simple, yet timeless: anti-Nazi graffiti in occupied Poland, 1940s. [450x542]

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British and French workers meet while digging the “Chunnel”, which connected Britain and mainland Europe for the first time. 1990 [1100x550]

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16-year-old anti-aircraft child soldier of the Hitler Youth, Hans Georg Henke, cries from combat shock as his world falls apart. He was captured by the US 9th Army in Hessen, Germany in 1945.[1170x1280]

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Italian-American cafe, MacDougal Street, NY, 1942. [570x693]

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Dolores Cacuango, known as Mama Doloreyuk, at age 87 in 1969. She was a tireless Ecuadorian activist who fought for the rights of laborers, women, and indigenous people. [1280 x 1284]

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Goalkeeper Jack Kirby refuses to give Nazi salute, unlike his Derby County team mates. The photo was taken when Derby County F.C. travelled to Germany to play four soccer matches in different cities against German XI teams during 1934. (976x549).

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The Last Imperial Family of Russia. From left is Olga, Maria, Tsar Nicholas, Tsaritsa Alexandra, Anastasia, Alexei, and Tatiana, ca. 1914. [640 x 566]

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Anne Frank's father; Otto Frank served as a lieutenant during WW1. by his merits he earned two iron crosses from both clases. Circa 1914 [500 × 713]

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Three stone masons spent 14 years building an iconic monument in the world's largest scuplture park, but got no credit for it. Undated photo taken between 1929 and 1942, Oslo, Norway (2953x2237).

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Actress Tippi Hedren playing in the pool with her pet lion, Neil (1971) [1024x683]

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Police dragging away a protester at an anti Vietnam war protest in Stockholm, 1973 [1280x953].

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Chanuka, Kiel, 1931 [2280x1654]

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Elizabeth II firing a British L85 battle rifle in 1993 [599x374]

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The Harlem Hellfighters were the first African American regiment in WWI who were assigned to the French forces. None were captured, never lost a trench, or a foot of ground to the enemy. They returned to the U.S. as one of the most successful regiments of World War I. 1910s [1013x800]

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Austro-Hungarian troops executing captured rebellious Serbians and other Slavs during the occupation of Serbia in WWI by the Central Powers, 1917. Serbia lost 850,000 people, which was almost a quarter of its population at that time. [2,601 × 1,829]

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Tsar Nicholas II and his identical cousin George V (Queen Elizabeth's grandfather) portrayed in Berlin in 1913 in German military uniform. [566 × 800]

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Battleship USS South Carolina (BB-26) drydocked at the Brooklyn Navy yard, september 1912.[5570 × 4481]

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Albina Mali-Hocevar: A Resistance Fighter Made Famous By Her Scars. She Fought For The Liberation of Yugoslavia During World War II, 1940s (story in comments) [1170 x 2532]

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Onlookers witnessing the Challenger explosion shortly after the space shuttle took off, January 28th, 1986 (664x664)

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The Old Cincinnati Library Before Being Demolished, 1874-1955 [990x978]

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Portrait of a young man with facial scars (Africa c1900) [2095x2867]

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Polish war hero, Captain Witold Pilecki. Seen here in court, being tried by the Communist puppet state for his loyalty to the government-in-exile. Days later, he was put down with a shot to the head. His heroism went unrecognised until the 1990s. March, 1948 [635 x 700]

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Australian soldiers of the 4th Division field artillery brigade on duckboard track in Chateau Wood, near Hooge, Ypres salient, 29 October 1917. Photo by Frank Hurley [3392x2480]

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The first wave of Marine landing craft head towards the beaches of Iwo Jima. 08:59, 19 February 1945.[740x587]

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Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler performs his 1966 #1 hit Ballad of the Green Berets on The Ed Sullivan Show. [1648 x 2048]

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Kenowun, a Eskimo woman wearing jewelry. Nunivak Island, Alaska, 28 February 1929 [1430x706]

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ISRO Scientists carrying India's first Communication satellite ‘APPLE’ on Bullock cart. 1981 [665 X 384]

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Japanese murderer Sada Abe shortly after being arrested by police. She had murdered her lover via erotic asphyxiation before cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them around in her kimono. She also reportedly had sex with the severed genitals, May 20, 1936 (664x479)

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Execution by cannon in Shiraz, Iran, 1890s. [1400x958]

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Andras Toma, the last WW2 POW, being released. Toma was captured in 1945, and locked up in insane asylum for speaking gibberish. In 2000, he was accidentally discovered by a Slovak, who recognized he's speaking hungarian. Toma was successfully identified and returned home. He died in 2004. [800x989]

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The aftermath of the 1949 Blizzard of the Century in Nebraska. [1212x1440]

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Tutankhamun's head. Harry Burrton Photo published Dec. 1925. @ Griffin Institute/Oxford University. [975x1100]

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A Coca Cola advertisement made by spreading grains for pigeons in Saint Mark's Square, Venice, 1960 [800x556]

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A California National Guard soldier escorts a surfer out of Venice Beach, Los Angeles, after it is shut down to prevent rioting or any large gathering of rioters there during the 1992 Los Angeles riots (May 2, 1992) [1200 x 800]

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Two U.S. Marine Corps M1 Abrams tanks patrol the streets of Baghdad, Iraq. 14 April 2003. [1280 × 853]

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October 26th 1951: Chinese Troops March Through The Tibetan Capital Of Lhasa During The Chinese Invasion Of Tibet. {450x302}

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Mugshot of Martin Luther King Jr following his 1963 arrest in Birmingham for protesting against segregation (544x357)

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November 1926: Sheep walking along the Kingsway in London. They were introduced to the London parks in the 20's and 30's to help keep the grass under control and to lower mowing costs. [1920X1490]

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Huey Percy Newton who founded the Black Panther Political Party along with with Bobby Seale in 1966. [1918x1280]

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Later British Admiral Jacky Fisher as a Midshipman in the 1850s. His career spanned the Crimean War to World War I. He guided the Royal Navy from the era of wooden sailing ships with muzzle-loaded cannons to steel-hulled battlecruisers, submarines and early aircraft carriers. [1280 x 1926]

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FDR addresses the anxious crowd regarding WWII at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony from the White House South Portico on Christmas Eve 1941. Winston Churchill can be seen on the right. [3000 x 2375]

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Maud Stevens Wagner the first known female tattoo artist in the United States. 1907 [3115x4382]

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Female models wearing swimsuits and Ortho Ammonium Sulfate bags, posed next to bagging machines, 1956. [1151x906]

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A slaughterhouse knocker swings a mallet at cows heads as they enter the Austin, Minnesota meatpacking plant (1941) [965 x 728]

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Wind causing the occupied 700 foot long Airship USS Los Angeles on its nose Mid-Somersault atop the 200 foot Mooring Mast at Lakehurst, NJ, USA - 1926 [2253x3249]

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Riots in Belfast after the death of Bobby Sands. Bobby Sands died on 5 May 1981 in the Maze prison after 66 days of hunger strike. His death and those of nine other hunger strikers was followed by a new surge of IRA recruitment and activity (Belfast, Northern Ireland 1981) [2867x1906]

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Vice President Richard Nixon’s limo is attacked by Venezuelan protestors, 1958 (718x 557)

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Fabio after getting hit by a goose on a ride at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1999. [1500 x 1000]

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Kurt Cobain’s body lay after his death on this day, April 5th, 1994. Kurt Cobain has now been dead longer than he was alive. [864x530]

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Coca Cola bottle history 1899, 1900, 1915, 1916, 1957 & 1986 [763x579]

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Eskimo basket maker, King Island, Alaska, between 1915 and 1925 [600 × 871]

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A woman overlooking a snowy mountain pass in The Pyrenees Mountains, France - 1956 [1125 X 749]

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A German civilian looks at a large poster portrait of Stalin at center of Berlin,3 June 1945 (718X800)

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A boy's reaction staring at a TV screen for the first time. (1948) {475x700}

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Charles de Gaulle with his daughter Anne, who had Down syndrome, somewhere in Brittany, 1933. He was heartbroken when she died from pneumonia at the age of 20 [1280x854]

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Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in exile in Saudi Arabia in the year following his overthrow, 1980. 9 years later he would briefly ruin his relationship with his Saudi hosts by leaving the country and attempting to reconquer Uganda. (2195x1926)

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Earliest known photo of Chernobyl disaster, taken by powerplant's photographer, dawn of April 26th, 1986 [569x646]

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“Amateurs talk tactics, professionals study logistics”-General Omar Bradley. Omaha beach, June 9th, 1944 [2560x1600]

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Roman Polanski kneeling at his door where 'Pig' is written in his wife's blood (Sharon Tate) after the Manson family murders, 1969. [640x459]

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Anne Frank’s father Otto, revisiting the attic where they hid from the Nazis. He was the only surviving family member. (1960) [650x832]

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Decapitated statue of Joseph Stalin's head on the streets of Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. [900 x 563]

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A Soviet Mi-24 Hind pilot with an AKS-74U, Soviet war in Afghanistan, 1980's. [1080x1288]

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Portrait of Prince Oddone of Savoy, son of the first King of Italy Victor Emmanuel II. Due to inbreeding (his parents were first cousins) he had a genetic disease that caused him dwarfism and deformity. Photo from late 1850 [1354×1628]

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Jan. 15, 1967: 34-year old Green Bay Packers receiver Max McGee runs in the first Super Bowl. Not expecting to play, he was hungover and had to borrow a helmet from a teammate. He caught 7 passes, 2 for touchdowns. He later became co-founder of the restaurant chain Chi-Chi's. [1200X1200]

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Some of the men of the 369th (15th New York). Who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action during WWI 1918. [600 x 475]

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Typhoid Mary (foreground), very annoyed to be quarantined when she isn't even sick. 1909, [506x375]

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Members of the New Zealand Maori Batallion performing a haka for the King of Greece in Egypt, June 1942. [892x880]

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A group of Havana schoolboys in 1937. The boy with the lollipop is Fidel Castro. [622×800]

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Ernesto Che Guevara photographed in the middle of a sneeze, 1960s [378x481]

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Justin Trudeau, son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, receives Cuban President Fidel Castro during the state funeral of the former Prime Minister. Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 3, 2000. [1913 x 1479]

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The British airship R33 in its hangar as it prepares for its first-ever flight at an aerodrome in Barlow, Yorkshire. 1919.[1600 × 1236]

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The Pennsylvania Coal Company mining crew in 1910. [400x400]

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United States President Calvin Coolidge in a Sioux headdress after being officially adopted into the Lakota nation, c. 1927 [2470x3222]

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British Mark IV Female Tank With Lewis Guns, 1917 [Colorized] [1920 x 1080]

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A Red Army soldier firing from a bathtub during the Battle of Stalingrad, 1942 [1439x807]

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First Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and his sculpture (other man unknown, date unknown, no given location). Yuri is seen interacting with said (clay) sculpture. Does anyone know anything about this photograph? (500 x 331)

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One of the only known photos of Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt together in person, 1915. (2208x2723)

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A Jewish couple, Mauritz Jacobs and Berta Levi on their wedding day,Hague, Netherlands Summer 1942 [2835x2037]

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A man and his cat. Taken in Skibotn, Norway by Ismo Holtto, 1967 [640x770]

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Old Vennel, Glasgow. In 1868, photographer Thomas Annan was commissioned by Glasgow’s authorities to document the last of the city’s slums. He published his work in The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow. I've linked to more images from his book in the comments. (1200x1500)

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Six Tongan youths who, as teenagers, had run away from school, stole a boat and spent 15 months shipwrecked on the Ata island. One of them holds a guitar made on the island. Their adventure lasted from June 1965 to September 1966, but the photo was taken several years after their rescue. [652x900]

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One the few existing photographs of Frederic Chopin, taken in 1849, a few months before his death.[640x800]

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The funeral of the former President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-Shek in Taipei, April 16th, 1975 (656x448)

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1914 photograph of Maria Nikolaevna Romanov kept at Lord Mountbatten’s bedside until his death [968 x 1384]

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Members of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR) in the Russian White House - during the constitutional crisis, c. September 21st - October 4th, 1993. [1080 x 1350]

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USS Enterprise (CV-6), one of the few pre-WW2 aircraft carriers to survive and the most decorated US Navy Warship in WW2 including the only to receive the highest honor from the Royal Navy, being towed to be sold for scrap, August 21, 1958 [989x766]

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What is believed to be the oldest photo taken in Colombia. This photo was taken in 1842 by French Diplomat Jean Baptiste Louis Gros in the capital Bogota, showing the Calle del Observatorio [525x757]

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Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, 1945. (1123x1600)

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Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972 [616x893]

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YB-49 flying wing prototype during a routine test flight, 1947 [1468x1166]

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A spy in the Soviet-Afghan War about to be executed by the Taliban in 1980 (1829x1294)

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A banner announcing the opening of Great Dog Butchery, a canine butchery in Paris, France, 1910 [688x504]

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Circassian girl, North Caucasus, 1917 {700×873}

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The swimming pool at East Berlin's SEZ complex, 1987. [1277 x 1024]

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Babies who lost their parents during the Vietnam War being airlifted back to the United States for adoption, 1975. [1536x1200]

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A picture of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and his (first) wife Jane. Taken in the 1960’s. [634 x 713]

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George H. W. Bush's arrival to Kyiv where he would deliver his infamous The Chicken Kiev Speech, 1991 [641 x 425]

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Holland, March 1979: In a collaboration with Sony, Joop Sinjou of Philips introduces the compact disc to the world, [1080X1350]

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A grim reminder of the horrors of war- The beach on Guadalcanal in 1951 (LIFE Magazine Archives, photo by Howard Sochurek) [1440x1448]

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg share a final kiss before being sent to Sing Sing Correctional Facility. The couple were convicted of spying and providing dozens of top secret nuclear and radar information to the Soviets. They would both be executed on the 19th June 1953. [890x1032]

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Filming an episode of “The French Chef” with Julia Child, 1963. [1415x1062]

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Paul Gruninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders to save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they came when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Gruninger was fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension, 1930s [360 x 480].

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1982, British Army landing on Falkland Islands. [1500x1000]

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Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Al St. John, 1918. Once his deadpan persona became established, Keaton avoided smiling in front of a camera. [1080 x 781]

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Defying Apartheid laws, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (blue shirt) and his supporters jog across a whites-only beach in Cape Town, South Africa, September 1989. [1000 x 677]

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