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Reeves, Moss and Weaving at the Matrix premiere in 1999
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U.S. Army Nurses sunbathing next to a twin Bofors 40 mm gun on a Coast Guard troop ship returning back to the United States from Europe, 1945. [914x720]
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40 Years GDR „What we are proud of“ Poster 1989
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir receives a hug from a student during a visit to Fourth Street School in Milwaukee on Oct. 3, 1969. Meir, who became prime minister of Israel earlier that year, attended the school when she was growing up in Milwaukee. [660 x 455]
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My dad next to his brother who is trying to pick up his new gf, now wife of 45 years
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Laurence “Scrappy” Blumer and his Lockheed P-38 Lightning “Scrapiron IV” - On August 25, 1944 he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for shooting down 5 German fighters in 15 minutes, which also made him an Ace in a single mission. [640x660]
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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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