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1946 mugshot of Nobusuke Kishi, infamously corrupt playboy ruler of the Japanese Empire's colony of Manchukuo. Jailed for war crimes, he was freed at the behest of the US government to serve as Japan's Prime Minister, only to resign in disgrace. He was a role model to the late Shinzo Abe (1200x831)
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A Sea Viper missile is launched from HMS Diamond to shoot down a Houthi drone in the first RN missile engagement since the 1991 Gulf War [923x522]
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John D. Rockefeller gifting a 5 cent coin to a child on his 84th birthday, 1929.
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The mill district of Pittsburg Pa. 1941 [768x768]
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A peasant kisses the foot of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, as he distributes land deeds in a ceremony. Isfahan, Iran. 1962. [1024 x 722]
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Spanish republican militia in Granen, on the Aragon Front during the Spanish Civill War. September 12, 1936. [400x300]
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A family bikes down the street in a four-person bicycle invention, 1939. (649×768)
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Six sumo wrestlers, circa 1890 [1152x900].
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Jerusalem Avenue in Warsaw, Poland, 1979. Photo by Jan Morek. [474x478]
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Stalin, Lenin and Kalinin at the Congress of the Russian Communist Party, March 1919. [1274x610]
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Peter Ostrum and Gene Wilder having a laugh over tea while filming Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1970
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1880. Cabinet card featuring freedwoman Georgia Whylie. 437 × 559
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Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. completing mission STS-108. 17 December 2001 [4096 × 4096]
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«Negroes are demanding jobs» Soviet newspaper, 1981.
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Lindisfarne Castle,Holy Island, Northumberland, UK.
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New York City Blizzard of 1947. [2131x1373]
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US Army DUKWs on the beach at Anzio, Italy, 15 Apr 1944.
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Frank 0 Sailsbury. The battle of London. 1944.
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G Gordon Liddy, FBI agent & Watergate culprit known for his macho antics, in 1964. Liddy had a habit of putting his hand over a lit flame to test his pain endurance, & supposedly sang the Nazi anthem upon entering prison to demonstrate his fearlessness. He never apologized for Watergate (2346x2928)
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Hergé reunites with his friend Zhang Chongren—the real life inspiration for Chang from Tintin in Tibet—during their meeting in Brussels (1981) [1731 x 1290]
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My 18 year old great-grandmother’s top-tier smolder (1907)
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The Dickey family of Washington D.C., 1923
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(547 x 1024) USS CARD (CVE-11) carring 17 cocooned F102A Delta Daggers
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Santa Claus with a jar of pennies on a scale. ‘Your penny will register. The Salvation Army needs 500 pounds of pennies.’ Scale courtesy of F.H. McCrae Store Fixtures, Knoxville, Tennessee, December 1936. [864x1047]
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Batavian Jager infantry during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799
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Sonny Barger, de facto leader of the Hell's Angels and founder of it's Oakland Chapter, in 1967. Journalist Hunter S Thompson, who lived with the Angels for a year, once described Barger as one of the 3 most intimidating men he'd ever met, comparing him to Muhammad Ali & the US president (873x873)
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Marilyn Monroe - Grauman's Chinese Theater (1953)
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Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947) English occultist, philosopher, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. 1912. [869 x 1104]
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FOD sweep on the Type-002 Shandong [1844 x 1228]
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