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At the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Marine Honor Guards stand watch over the original Declaration of Independence, which was displayed at the base of the statue to commemorate Jefferson’s bicentennial anniversary, April 13, 1943. (758 x 1024)
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Great-Grandfather & His Gas Station, Newell, IA, Circa 1900
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West German Chancellor Willy Brandt at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Poland, showing remorse for German atrocities against Jews during the uprising and war (1970)(1199x674)
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Possible last photo of USS Spence (DD-512), seen here attempting to refuel from the USS New Jersey (BB-62) on December 17 1944, the day before she sank. [943x640]
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Conan O'Brien, late 1960s.
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All three fighter types used by the U.S. Army 8th Air Force are seen in this line-up of Fighter Group Commanders’ planes where they have assembled for a meeting with chief Brig. Gen. Francis H. Griswold, to confer on strategy against the tottering German forces. Bottisham, Camb, UK, 1944. [736x918]
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Expelled Germans in West Germany protest Yalta and Potsdam border agreements/recognition, as well as the expulsions of Germans. In the background, a map of united Germany, with the Sudetenland, Oder-Neisse, and East Prussia territories included (August 1950)(1280x908)
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Natalie Wood on a boat ride in the mid 1950s.
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The first boundary marker after the Mexican-American War, protected by a fence from the anger of the local population. 1848 [620x403]
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Construction of the Rome subway under the grounds of the Colosseum, 1939. Rome subway has just turned 70, being inaugurated in February 1955 [1885x1370]
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Posthumous photo of Roman Shukhevych, a commander of the UPA. A bullet hole is visible on his temple, he shot himself to avoid being captured by Soviet secret police. Known for the ethnic cleanings of Poles from Galicia during WW2 (1950)(400x297)
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"In Front Of The TV" By Yuliy Mikhaylovich Vecherskiy, 1996 Russia
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Ante Pavelić, head of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and the Ustaše during WW2, in his disguise used for a false passport to escape to Argentina. He was assisted by the Vatican and Roman Catholic Church to escape justice for his genocidal crimes during the NDH (1940s)(672x889)
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Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa Einstein, 31 May 1921.
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Château de Valençay 🏰 Valençay, France 🏰 [02.25]
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Lech Wałęsa after his "Jump over the fence" - when he had the chance to get to the protesters in the Lenin (Gdańsk) shipyard - during the Solidarity movement, in the Polish People’s Republic, c. August 1980. [1170 x 758]
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South Vietnam armored personnel carriers moving down a canal in the Northern Mekong Delta (August 7, 1972) [960x734]
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Shiro Ishii, director of Unit 731 at a reunion party of the unit's members after the war - 1946 [674x460]
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Jean Cousin's illustration from ''Les singularités de la France antarctique - a fabulous animal supposed to live in Americas'',1558. [963x1566]
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On February 24th, 1953, Polish communists murdered General August Fieldorf "NIL" by hanging. He was organizing sabotage and combat actions against German occupation forces. The body was never found despite searches. 1953 [750x530]
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Canadian Protester uses a hockey stick to shoot tear gas canisters back at riot police during the 2001 Quebec City Protests [1920 x 1250] (2001-04-21)
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Republican troops in a trench during the Battle of Jarama, in the Spanish Civil War (February 1937) [1665 × 933]
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22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany
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Official Eraserhead (1977) Trailer in colour 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-fNP3BwOEs
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Physicist Richard P. Feynman, captured at Los Alamos—the secret site that built the atomic bomb—during World War II (1944) [2111x2710]
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Pile of bodies in Dachau concentration camp, Germany. April-May 1945 [480-290]
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Steinacleit stones, Outer Hebrides
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