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Funeral for a child of the Widener family. The family stands at the graveside with open coffin of the deceased child. Robertson Cemetery, Claiborne County, Tennessee, 1950. (Tennessee State Library and Archives) [863x1217]
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Scatters the cat hiding inside one of HMS Dreadnought's 12 inch turrets. [1500 x 1000]
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"Will you take it in your mouth? Death is a man. The cigarette is his penis. Nicotine is semen." Russian anti-smoking propaganda, 2000s
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Coffee break on the job in Chicago 1964. [1339x1592]
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Germans looting Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw in the summer of 1944. Photo by Stefan Bałuk. [2042x1437]
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Frank Soo (1930s), the first non-white footballer to play for the English Football League and represent England. His dad was a Chinese sailor, his mom an English woman. [492x665]
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A wounded German soldier is moved off the line in Crimea, exactly 1 year on from Operation Barbarossa, 22nd June 1942 [800x508]
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Settela Steinbach, a Romani girl from the Netherlands, transported from Camp Westerbork to extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. 19 May 1944 [1909 × 1046]
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US soldiers Jarrell Isaacson and Jeffrey Hale resting during combat in Baghdad, 4 April 2003, Iraq War. [1048x595]
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Johnny Cash and Elton John dressed up as each other on SNL 1982 (Elton as musician, Johnny as host).
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Shocking Reality of Mauthausen Concentration Camps - Coloriz
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Persian woman holding a Kalgan waterpipe used for smoking, circa 1890. [1027x1352]
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US Soldiers on a walk in the Austrian Alps near Innsbruck, 27th May 1945[893x706]
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Soldiers of the Zimbabwe Army on parade at Harare's Rufaro Stadium, 1984. [882 x 588]
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Lynda Carter leaves the pool after her swimming competition in "The Battle of the Network Stars", 1976
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May 21st, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flies into Le Bourget Field, Paris, France aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, becoming the first person to fly Solo Across the Atlantic Ocean. [2046 x 1794]
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RAF pilots of No. 151 Wing leaning against a Hurricane aircraft meeting a Soviet sentry in the Kola Peninsula, Soviet Union, October 1941. [1080x821]
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Aarburg castle, Switzerland
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The last image taken of British explorers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine as they were about to leave Camp IV on the morning of June 6, 1924, for their ill-fated attempt to summit Mount Everest. Mallory's body was found in 1999, Irvine’s body has yet to be found [1072 x 644].
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Jimmy Savile Meets the Beatles
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Statue of Liberty , USSR, 1960
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The US Army Air Forces B-17G Flying Fortress "Miss Donna Mae II" is hit by friendly fire after it drifted into the path of 1,000 lbs bombs from the plane above it during a raid on Berlin, Germany. 19 May 1944 [1200 x 949]
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Alexander Grothendieck, considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th century, teaching mathematics at Hanoi University in 1967 to protest foreign involvement in the Vietnam war [742x523]
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Soviet army servicemen in front of a building with a poster "Warrior! Remember! This Wildling Chinese is 6 kilometers away from you". Transbaikal Military District, 39th Army. Mongolia. 1986-1988.
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A Chinese woman and child in the UK, 1920s [725x588]
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Grover’s Mill resident William Dock ready to defend against martians after listening to the War of the Worlds, a radio drama about an alien invasion. 1938 (986x796)
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Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe -- 1953
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Lt Audie Murphy wearing his Medal of Honor at the Hohenwerfen Castle where the headquarters of the US 15th Infantry Regiment was located, Werfen, Salzburg, Austria, 2 Jun 1945 [1024x1119]
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The Val Dora battalion of the 5th Alpini Regiment in the Col de Pelouse mountain pass on the French/Italian Border after the Italian Invasion of France, June 1940 [2768x1820]
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Princess Diana greeting people in Walsall, 1986 [1851 x 1227]
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