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"Symphony of the 6th Blast Furnace" - Soviet Union, 1979 (by E. Sedukhin)
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1940 portrait of Hugo Sperrle, Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe. He survived WWII and was tried at Nuremberg, but was acquitted (2782x3780)
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Sennaya Square during the annual fire brigade celebration in Mologa. A fire lookout tower (right) was designed by brother of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Andrey. The entire town of 130,000 people was displaced and flooded in 1946, after the completion of the hydroelectric power plant in Rybińsk. [1088x713]
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American soldier returning home from The Great War, ca 1918-19 [640x898]
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Bhopal State Forces. Circa 1936
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JRR Tolkein reading in his study at Oxford, December 1955
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Jubilant Sandinista rebels ride a small tank in the main square of Managua in the summer of 1979. [1024x676]
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January 1941. "Long stairway in mill district of Pittsburgh
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French anti-Franco postcard (1946) showing a blood-soaked Nazi skeleton casting its shadow over France from Spain.
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Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (1991)
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Orson Welles As MacBeth, 1947 [2792 × 2230]
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Actor Steve Buscemi during his service in the Engine Co. 55 in Manhattan’s Little Italy in the 1980s. [583 × 900]
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One day they will wake up - Bob Minor 1925
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A Vietnamese female fighter captured an American pilot , Dewey Wayne Waddell in 1967. [960x952]
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, some sailors were trapped on the USS West Virginia and the USS Oklahoma. One group survived 16 days, which they tallied on the wall of the storeroom where they were trapped. No one wanted guard duty because of the incessant banging and screaming. [999x755]
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Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf-109 fighters kept under the cover of a railway bridge during the invasion of France, 1940
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March 9, 2024 will mark the 90th anniversary of the birth of Soviet pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. He became the first person in world history to fly into outer space.
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King Arthur's Stone, Wales - 5000 year old cromlech
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Diana, Princess of Wales, and Prince Charles pose for the official photograph by Lord Lichfield in Buckingham Palace at their wedding (London, UK 1981) [2770x2867]
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A businessman and secretary working in a pool during a heatwave in Berlin, Germany 1926. [2159x1480]
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11-12-year-old Isaac Allal, the only survivor of the plane crash in Hurum, Norway. On 20 November 1949, a Douglas DC-3 carrying 28 Jewish children from Tunisia to Israel crashed into a mountainside during fog. [1067x1300]
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Marisa Tomei’s yearbook from 1982.
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This is what a Volvo looked like in 1973
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In 1812, following the battle of Krasny, Marshal Ney and 3000 men were cut off by 60,000 Russians. After trying to force their lines, they crossed the Dniepr river and covered 90 km of open ground, surrounded by cossacks and rejecting 3 offers to surrender. 800 men rejoined the army. By Adolphe Yvon
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Original Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter 1979
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A Finnish soldier helping farmers to harvest the wheat (Finland 1941) [1769x2867]
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Valerie Bertinelli and Eddie Van Halen getting married in 1981
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“Scotland Forever!” Oil on Canvas by Lady Butler. Depicts the charge of the Scots Greys on the French infantry at Waterloo, 18 June 1815.
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USS Essex (LHD-2) seen from Indian navy ASuW corvette INS Kora (P61) in the Eastern Indian ocean. [1024x577]
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King Neptune oversees a “Line crossing ceremony” for crossing the Equator on USS Lexington CV-16 in Early 1944. Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are called Shellbacks or Sons of Neptune. Those who have not yet crossed the Equator are nicknamed Pollywogs. [856x1168]
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