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Actors Raymond Burr and Vic Perrin in a publicity still for CBS Radio's Fort Laramie, 1956. This excellent show ran one season. The next year, Burr was cast as Perry Mason for television (more info below) [2160 × 2413]
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My mom at a house party her freshman year of college (Spring 1970, Eastern Illinois University)
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People on barricades set up by parliamentary forces during the constitutional crisis in Russia in the fall of 1993. It was a conflict between the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, which included politicians from all political positions, and President Boris Yeltsin. [1024x756]
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Christopher Walken turns 81 (born March 31, 1943) today.
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Inhabitants of Turin watch the FIAT Lingotto plant burning and collapsing after an Allied air raid, 29 March 1944
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Iraqi minister of information Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, better known in the west as "Baghdad Bob" during a wartime propaganda broadcast in 2003. Sahhaf was known for his colorful & widely mocked press briefings in which he often made ludicrous claims about Iraq's military successes. (500x370)
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"Disobeying to hitler shortens the war" French resistance flyer, WW2.
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Enjoying a drink on the final day before prohibition started in 1920. [1080x784]
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Nationalists forces celebrating after reaching the Mediterranean Sea, Vinaròs, Spain, 1938 [1549x1170]
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"Colored soldiers! Throw down your weapons!" Leaflet depicting a French colonizer raping an African woman while her husband dies for France. Germany, 1940
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Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle, Ukraine 🇺🇦
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American paratrooper after combat in Vietnam, 1966 [1400x965]
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The priest fires a machine gun. South Lebanon (Lebanese Civil War), May 1985 [890X592].
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7 Oct 1943, Ottla Kafka, beloved sister of author Franz Kafka, was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid [530 x 755]
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Diana Rigg and Anthony Hopkins, early 1970s.
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Colorised photo of (debatably) the dumbest officer and his adjutant escaping from their own POW camp
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Istanbul 1905 vs Today [ 1080x1080 ]
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B-17 Flying Fortress “Sweet and Lovely”
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Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at the Livadia Palace in Yalta, Russia , Feb 1945,
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1980's photo of Mexican drug lord Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, who founded what would become the gulf cartel, one of the most powerful & dangerous cartels in Mexico to this day, almost a century ago in 1930. Throughout his entire career he spent only a few hours in jail & died at 85 a free man. (640x465)
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my grandparents in the 1950s
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The Spreckels office building on Market Street at Fremont is fully engulfed during the Great San Francisco Fire & Earthquake of 1906. [985x732].
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Typhoid Mary (foreground), very annoyed to be quarantined when she isn't even sick. 1909, [506x375]
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"Dad, about Afghanistan..." A sad caricature of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, 2021
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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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Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient without gloves, 1991
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Policemen arresting a demonstrator when local people blocked the march of the British Union of Fascists in Cable Street in London’s East End. 4 October 1936. [1200 x 876].
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January 18th 1980, Michael Jackson and Donna Summer at the American Music Awards
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