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C. 1950s. I have been told I look like my grandmother...
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French General Henri Dumesnil toasts Charles Sweeny, an American mercenary, before his departure to Morocco to fight in the Rif War. Sweeny was the leader of a 17-man squadron of Americans who bombed Moroccan villages and cities for the "cause of the white man's civilization", 1925 [932 x 1024].
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Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1906. Keiths Theatre was a vaudeville playhouse run by B.F. Keith. (500×715)
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Salvaged German battleship SMS Prinzregent Luitpold arrives at Rosyth, Scotland, for scrapping, 12 May 1933 [1290x1610]
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Sikhs protecting the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem. Ottoman Empire, c. 1900. [1080x1350]
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A man rests after celebrating the end of Prohibition, December 5, 1933
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Launch of U.S. Navy Submarine USS Segundo (SS-398) at Portsmouth Navy Yard. 5 February 1944 [1429 × 1133]
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Battle of Thermopylae - Steve Noon
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Young riders refuel during a children's sidecar race in Berlin, Germany, 1931. (960×817)
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[Colorized] Shelley Duvall- 1970 [900 x 1150]
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Itamar Ben-Gvir, a 19-year-old Kahanist, holds an ornament which he stole from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's car. On live TV, he declared, "We got to his car, and we'll get to him too." Weeks later, Rabin was assassinated. Ben-Gvir is now Israel's Minister of National Security, 1995 [1389 x 589].
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Man eating rice, China (1901-1904) [1400x1924]
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The Siege of Cartagena de Indias (1815) painted by Gastón Betelli [800x800]
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Colorized Video, France Gall performing in Eurovision 1965
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1pMomCxqJE
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“We have achieved our goals …exactly what the Soviets said” A caricature of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, 2021.
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Murat leads one of the greatest charges in military History, with 11,000 horsemen, following the destruction of Augereau's corps in a snowstorm by the Russians, at the battle of Eylau in 1807. Though costly, the charge saved the French army from the disastrous position it was in. By François Flameng
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The corpse of Pope Pius IX after being exhumed in 1956 [410×314]
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Helen D. Longstreet, widow of CSA General James Longstreet (later a U.S. Ambassador), attends the 1938 Gettysburg reunion. [960 x 720]
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In june 1980 during the military dicatorship in Chile artist Alfredo Jaar asked the Chileans a simple question: "Es usted feliz?" (Are you happy?) [973x647]
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A young Dolly Parton with her husband Carl Dean. They’ve been married since 1966.
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Nguyễn Văn Thiệu takes oath of office as president of South Vietnam, 21 October 1967 [2604x1927]
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Moving day in New York, 1938, colourised [1616x2048]
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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell holding a model vial of anthrax while giving a presentation to the United Nations Security Council on Iraq's alleged chemical weapon program. 5 February 2003 [1200 × 835]
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A young soldier and his mother right before he left for WWI in 1917. (768×960)
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Rundstedt, Mussolini and Hitler, Russia 1941. (798 × 548)
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Laboratory technician holding an anthrax-laced letter sent to American Senator Patrick Leahy. October 9 2001 [2000x1312]
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Two Afghan women walk past the huge cavity where one of the ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan, known to locals as the "Father Buddha," used to stand, Afghanistan, June 17, 2012. [2700x1793]
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Red Hot Chili Peppers 1990s
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The disarmament of the Argentines after the defeat in the Falklands War, 1982 [650x888].
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The real life Peaky Blinders, 1910.
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