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In 70s, hitchhiking was a common way to get around for those who didn’t have a car or too young to drive. While hitchhiking seems unthinkable today, it once symbolized the freedom and trust that defined the open road in the '70s.
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Chateau de Montreuil-Bellay is a castle in department of Maine-et-Loire, France.
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Attack on German shipping by US Navy aircraft in Bodø Harbor, Norway. "Operation Leader" 4 October 1943 [1165 x 871]
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Test using 36 tons of conventional explosives before the first Swedish atomic bomb test. However, a real nuclear weapon was never built because Sweden abandoned the project despite having the knowledge and materials. 28 August 1957, Vidsel Test Site in Lapland [233x217]
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Fans waiting to buy tickets for the 1924 World Series. 3 October 1924 [5468 × 4432]
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A battle-hardened German soldier in Stalingrad, 27 November 1942
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Full female acrobat/aerealist cast of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1935. [1024x581]
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April 13 of 1932, Ivy Russell lifts a record of 369.5 pounds at a weight of 126 and 5ft 7 tall, against Tillie Tinmouth and witness by 2,000 people. [1324x836]
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Ba'athist Iraqi officials overlook damage in Belgrade after 1999 bombing of Serbia, 1999 [517x695]
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Catherine Zeta-Jones in 1999
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Oppression, art by me, 2022
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Thérèse of Lisieux dressed up as Joan of Arc. The only photograph of a canonized Saint cosplaying as another Saint. (c. 1897) [370 x 672]
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Dutch council of war before the Four Days' Battle, 1666. The battle was one of De Ruyter's greatest victories and one of the most fiercely contested battles of the Age of Sail.
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From words to action! // Soviet Union // 1980s
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The body of former Chilean Army Commander-in-Chief General Carlos Prats after he was assassinated by a car bomb planted by the Chilean secret police while in exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 30 September 1974 [806 × 902]
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Trying to colorize a Gilda scene.Looking for tips to improve
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A Colorized Photo Of Grigori Rasputin With The Last Empress Of Russia And Her Five Children In 1908
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Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, his Matra Djet sports car & the Monument to the Conquerors of Space in the background, (1965), Russian SFSR [2048 × 1671]
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Chinese general Xu Shiyou (right) orders 80 tanks across the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge to test its strength a few days before its completion, 26 September, 1968. [955x606]
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The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, seen here under construction in 1964. It opened in November that year. [1024x814]
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David Bowie with his new wife Iman at their wedding in 1992.
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Gustav Vasa, king of Sweden 1523-1560. Pictured during his exhumation in 1946. Uppsala, Sweden. [960x655]
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Australian soldiers thrown into the air after their boat sailed onto an explosive device. No one was seriously injured. 1942 [530x729]
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USS Mobile (LCS 26) comes alongside USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) for a fueling-at-sea. Oct. 1, 2024 [4856 x 2731]
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Cairo from the Saladin Citadel -- Circa 1900 (1318x1600)
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2 U.S. sailors in a firefighting vat and their guide at the Summer Palace in Peking (Beijing) China, 1924 [5021 × 3647]
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Fidel Castro meets cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, June 1961 [1200 x 865]
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First Soviet computers // Soviet Union // 1983
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Martha Raye performs for US soldiers Margaret Bourke-white
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“Cubans fighting from tree tops” from Leslie's official history of the Spanish-American war, 1899.
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