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A British soldier inside a trench on the Western Front during World War I, 1914–18 [1600 × 970]
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Me in 1978 seeing Star Wars, at the Bayberry Theater in Liverpool, New York
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, New York City, 1934. [1026x1603]
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, 1988. Photo by Elliott Erwitt.
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Yugoslav tennis player Monica Seles after a knife attack, Hamburg, 30 April, 1993. Gunter Parche, a crazy fan of Steffi Graf, her previous rival, ran onto the court with a knife and attacked the tennis player. The wound turned out to be minor, but Seles had a mental breakdown. [620x475]
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Chirk Castle, Chirk, Wales.
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Actress Allison Hayes - 1950s
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Rare 1950's photo of Vasily Blokhin, Joseph Stalin's head executioner, in old age. Having personally killed tens of thousands of people in his career, including 7,000 Polish officers in under a month during the "Katyn Massacre," Blokhin was the most prolific murderer in human history. (538 X 800)
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Somebody’s Memaw was the life of the party! (Late 60s/early 70s)
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Mother Kata Šoljić with photos of her four sons who all died in the defense of the city of Vukovar during the war for Croatian independence (1991) [708 x 442]
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Israeli Soldier passes Palestinian Children in the West Bank (1989-11-20) [1613 x 1920]
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Patrice Lumumba calling for the removal of Belgian Troops from the Congo. 20 July 1960 (458 x 480)
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Photo taken in a Sears department store on November 22, 1963 [749x944]
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My old man in Vietnam, 1970’s
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Scene from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York City, 1930s [640x603]
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Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers) meeting an unnamed boy in a wheelchair during his visit to The Children's Institute (formerly The Memorial Home for Crippled Children) in Pittsburgh. May 15, 1978 [1024 x 576]
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German tennis player Karsten Braasch and the Williams sisters, which he defeated in a match that took place because of the sisters' boast that they would beat any man players except the top 200. The German drank two shandy before the match. 1998 [610x433]
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An African man points a defendant at the Luanda Trial. The trial is only time that anyone has been tried for "crimes against peace" since World War Two. Thirteen Western mercenaries, mostly from Britain and the United States, were tried by an Angolan tribunal for war crimes, 1976 [2048 x 1429].
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U.S. soldier standing in a truckload of captured gold recovered from Saddam Hussein's regime in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, late 2003. Although exact numbers are unknown, some estimate that during his 24-year reign, Saddam built a personal fortune as large as $40,000,000,000 (1125 X 1584)
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Mr. Samuel L Jackson at 21. Circa 1971
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Early 80's....hot girl and me. Almost 41 years ago. She just reminded me to take the trash down. Married 39+ years.
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“Where Marines Go, Their Pin-ups Go.” U.S. Marines on a landing craft approaching Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. One of the Marines shows a picture of a pin-up girl to the others, 1943. (National Museum of U.S. Navy) [1611x2048]
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Rebecca Ann Felton. On 21 November 1922, she became the first woman to serve in the US Senate, although she served for only one day. Felton was a white supremacist and the last slave owner to serve in Senate who spoke vigorously in favor of lynching African Americans (c1922) [2776x3673]
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"The Navy Needs Ships to Avenge Pearl Harbor. Let's go.” Bethlehem Steel Company, ca 1943
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The experimental steam locomotive 6399 »Fury« , designed, by a collaboration between the LMS (London Midland & Scottish railway C૦̣) & the Superheater C૦̣ , to bring-about, through use of extremely high pressure steam, a step-up in efficiency: sometime between 1930 & 1935. [1440×960]
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New York tour busses, 1904. [2014x1589]
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President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, speaking to the crowds. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. November 19, 1863 [735x599]
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