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First King of Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud with his sons Prince Faisal (on the left) and Prince Saud (on the right) in the early 1950s [1000 × 1406]
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A British soldier wounded in the leg is given a blood transfusion in an operating theatre at an Advanced Dressing Station in Italy, 1944 [1280x861]
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Photo taken shortly before the Omagh car bombing in 1998 by the 'Real IRA'. The bomb is in the red car and would kill 29 people including the photographer. The father and daughter however survived. The child's face appears to be censored. [700x611]
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German flak artillery soldier smoking a cigarette and covered in bandages, after having survived either a shot or shrapnel through his helmet - Italian Front, date unknown
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Vivian Maier-Self Portrait-1950s
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Training carrier USS Lexington (AVT-16) in the Gulf of Mexico, 1991 [1600x1270]
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Anita Bryant ("Save Our Children" leader) gets pied by a gay rights activist, Des Moines, Iowa, 14th October 1977 [1024x682]
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Bearded Mark Hamill in 1989
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Members of W Company Mortar Platoon, 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, prepare to engage enemy targets after an intense evening of incoming fire on the front line just south of Basra, Iraq. 26 March 2003. Photograph by Cpl Paul Jarvis/MOD [3600 x 2346]
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A convoy of U.S. Marine High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), assigned to D/Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marines Division, in Northern Iraq during a sandstorm. 26 March 2003 [1720 × 1160]
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Ann Arbour, MI, 1996: Teenager Keshia Thomas saves white supremacist from angry mob by shielding him with her body [1524x2032]
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Ray Charles, Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson and...uhhhh, 1976
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Troopship Queen Mary arrives in New York Harbor, 20 June 1945 [5750x3900]
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Mother and child sitting in the ruined streets of Iran as soldiers (likely allied forces) march through. Likely ~1941, probably during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. From a WWII Iran photo album that I inherited from a U.S. Soldier. [3488x1965]
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Today is the memorial of Óscar Romero, the archbishop martyred for his outspoken defense of El Salvador’s poor. Assassinated by government death squad while celebrating Holy Mass. Canonized as a saint in 2018 (c. 1978) [631x717]
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Field Marshall Erwin Rommel inspecting the beach defenses in Normandy 1944 [1200x1082].
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Anti-P.O.U.M propaganda, Spanish Civil War 1937
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Edward Delafield Smith was an American lawyer, abolitionist, and federal prosecutor. While a prosecutor, he combatted the slave trade by prosecuting slave traders as pirates. In 1861, he gained international attention after one case resulted in a slave trader being sentenced to death [848 x 1278].
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Kate Moss, Johnny Depp & Iggy Pop - London 1996
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Karl Knutson Bonde Leaving Vyborg Castle for the Royal Election in Stockholm 1448 | Severin Falkman | 1886
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MacArthur by Kukryniksy, USSR, 1950.
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Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
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The Italian driver Tazio Nuvolari, along with his navigator, waiting for the start of the third Mille Miglia. The first Mille Miglia race started on 26 March 1927 covering 1,618 km, from Brescia to Rome and back, corresponding to just over 1,005 modern miles (Brescia, Italy 1929) [2867x2052]
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WrestleMania VI Aprl 1,1990
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Barricades on Rue Saint-Maur, Paris, 25 June, 1848 [1400x1087]
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Georgia State Patrol trooper Allen Campbell stares at child drawn to reflection in his shield at Ku Klux Klan rally in Gainesville, GA on Sep. 5, 1992. Said Campbell, "Me and this kid, neither one made a choice to be here. The state patrol made me come, and his mom and daddy brought him." [580x757]
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Is…ALL of that cheese supposed to be just for them??
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Greek model Aliki Diplarakou, who previously won the title of Miss Hellas and Miss Europe 1930, as Athena Promachos at the Second Delphic Festival in Delphi, 1930.🦉 [1080x1307]
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