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Opening session of the Second Vatican Council. The council was opened on 11 October 1962 by pope John XXIII and was closed on 8 December 1965 by pope Paul VI. It is considered the most significant event in the history of Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation (Vatican City 1962) [2772x2772]
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A couple poses near their home on their wedding day in East Beirut, Lebanon 1989. Photo by Joseph Barrak. [960x637]
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"Victory Parade at Bremerhaven- 12th May 1945."
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Guys,, happy Gandhi jayanti /s
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Halloween party, late 1940s. [3264x2448].
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Movie star Anthony Quinn converses with King Hussein of Jordan on the set of “Lawrence of Arabia”. The King was a huge supporter of the production, loaning an entire brigade of his own troops to work as extras in the film. 1962 [848 x 636]
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Castlerigg Stone Circle, English Lake District [OC]
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The Cockpit stone circle, Pooley Bridge, England [OC]
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Children in shoolroom in the Lower East Side, New York, 1886. [799x646]
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Castle of Gjirokastra, Albania 🇦🇱
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Arab propaganda poster from the first Arab-Israeli War (1948)
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American Pickers: 1943 by Marjory Collins
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United Airlines stewardess in 1970. [1538x1586]
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German students publicly burn “non-German” writings and books, gathered on the central boulevard “Unter den Linden” in Berlin on May 11, 1933. [2933×2229]
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Raid On Deerfield MA by Abenak & French forces, 1704, Francis Back
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Fish seller selling fish on the street. Hel, Poland, July 1932. [1080x1625]
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Devin Castle, Slovakia, dating from the 9th Century, overlooks the confluence of the Danube and Morava Rivers
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Colorized thumbnail used for Beatles Funny Moments video ...
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Former heavyweight-champion Muhammad Ali and boxing promoter Don King meet with the dictator of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko, in 1974. Mobutu hosted the famous "Rumble in the Jungle" fight between Ali and Foreman, putting up the $10,000,000 purse for the fight personally. (1200 X 863)
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Muscovites taking a stroll outside while the House of Soviets of Russia burns, 4th of October 1993. 1494x1144.
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A woman her bike while balancing two buckets of milk. Netherlands, mid-1940s. [1458x1523]
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Tail gunner in a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress, 1943. [1024x1280] (Original color photo)
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The battleship HMS King George V at sea. The first of a new generation of capital ship for the Royal Navy, the photo is only slightly spoiled by the presence of a UP launcher on 'B' turrer rather than the designed octuple pom pom! [1270 x 1800]
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Photo from JFK’s motorcade, 1963 (colored) [760x786]
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'No Japan' — American cartoon (1945) showing a Japanese soldier standing defiantly with a sign reading 'No Surrender!' while a skull-faced atom bomb flies towards him.
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July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Cotton Carnival picnic.
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A grim reminder of the horrors of war- The beach on Guadalcanal in 1951 (LIFE Magazine Archives, photo by Howard Sochurek) [1440x1448]
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A crowd looks on as a man uses a chair to beat the body of a hanged student just outside Thammasat University. The 6 October 1976 massacre was a violent crackdown by Thai police and lynching by right-wing paramilitaries against leftist protesters who had occupied Bangkok's University [3600x2304]
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Captain Nieves Fernandez (right) with her husband. January 2, 1944. She was a Filipina school teacher who led the resistance for two and a half years in Tacloban, Leyte. She commanded 110 natives who killed 200 Japanese soldiers
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Behind the scene of "Howard The Duck", 1986
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