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Photos of Oliver Cromwell's head, from a 1911. The head was cut off after death, impaled on January 1661 and buried on March 25, 1960 [420×301]
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The death of Stalin; his funeral procession viewed from the balcony of the US embassy, 1953 [1600x1043]
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HMS Edinburgh, one of the two units of the Colossus class ironclad battleships of the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. The class became the first RN warships to carry large rifled breech-loading main guns, the BL 12 inch naval gun Mk I (304.8 mm) (1417x1001)
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Joseph Mikulec, Croatian globetrotter who traveled 100K miles across 6 continents on foot, collected 50,000 autographs of famous people (1908-22), including 6 US Presidents and many world leaders. Link to his 60-pound 'Largest Autograph Album & Travel Log Ever Assembled' in comments. [838x1024]
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1/350 scale diorama of the Russian cruiser Varyag, 1899. By Tobiiro2 in X (1251x967)
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Will Ferrell in High School 1986
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Female munitions workers in England get to see what they are making in action.
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A Makeshift Hospital In The Vietnam War, 1970 [980x1238]
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Vincenzo Peruggia in the courtroom. On 21 August 1911, Peruggia stolen the Mona Lisa. He walked into the Louvre and, noticing it had no guards or visitors, took the painting off its pegs, removed it from the frame, and walked out of the museum with it under his arm (Florence, Italy 1914) [2193x2867]
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Ric Flair meeting a 12-year-old Dwayne Johnson circa 1984
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July 1940.Migrants-Photo byJack Delano
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George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party lay dead after being assassinated by former member, John Patler in 1967. [1080 x 894]
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A very dapper secretary of the Embassy of Japan in the US. Taketomi Toshihiko, seated with his wife. Washington D.C. October 24, 1922 [1075 x 1300][Colorized]
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East Germans surprise Hungarian border guards and rush through a gate into Austria. Austria and Hungary had agreed to open the border for 3 hours, to let a peace demonstration to happen, but more than 600 East Germans suddenly arrived and fled to the West (Sopron, Hungary 1989) [2600x1560]
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British MP Joan Lestor attends a memorial service for Steve Biko at St-Martin-in-the-Fields, to mark the anniversary of the Anti-Apartheid activist's death in detention in South Africa. Draped is a list of 50 other prisoners known to have died in South African detention (London, UK 1978) [2867x2865]
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Page from a Persian bestiary depicting a Simurgh. From Maragheh, Iran; Ilkhanate era; 1297-98 or 1299-1300 CE. [730x900]
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USS Boxer (LHD 4) returns to San Diego following an initial sea trial period after refit. Aug. 22, 2023 [4350 x 2895]
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Germanicus Before the Remains of the Legions of Varus at the forest of Teutoburg in 15 AD, 6 years after the Romans were destroyed by Arminius. Germanicus avenged them by waging successful campaigns in Germania, crushing Arminius at the battles of Idistaviso and the Angrivarian Wall. By Lionel Royer
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How babies used to travel on airplanes in the 1950s. [2160x1620]
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Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe (1953)
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A very dapper secretary of the Embassy of Japan. Taketomi Toshihiko, seated with his wife. Washington D.C. October 24, 1922
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Marilyn Monroe visiting injured troops in Japan. This soldier had a broken back but it didn't stop Marilyn. (1954) [1065x979]
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"Don't desecrate nature!" - Soviet anti-littering poster from the 1960s.
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Necmettin Erbakan, then Sharia Prime Minister of Turkiye, signs the decisions taken after negotiations with the secularist and Ataturkist army. February 28, 1997 [1080x1051]
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The grandson of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter confirmed Jimmy is in the final chapter.
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1500s European illustration depicting European traveller Hans Staden watching a cannibalistic ritual in Brazil.
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Kids enjoying the ice cream truck in Brooklyn, New York, 1948 [600x600]
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In the city of Hamburg, the bodies of German civilians lay on the sidewalk following an Royal Air Force raid on the city. July 1943.[910x589]
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Sculptor Frederick Hart completing the clay model of his Vietnam Veterans Memorial statue The Three Soldiers, 1983. [661 x 1000]
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Students cheering after school caught on fire. February 15th, 1939 [1600 x 1619]
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