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King Frederick IX of Denmark showing off his tattoos. 1951
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My mom at prom with Collin Hanks, 1994
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Ronald Clark O'Bryan is escorted from a courtroom after being convicted of murdering his son with Halloween candy laced with cyanide. It is the only known instance of someone poisoning others with Halloween candy. O'Bryan was later nicknamed "The Man Who Ruined Halloween", Texas, 1975 [1200 x 1510].
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Unknown Dutch soldier smiling with Indonesian guerilla he captured earlier during a routine patrol in East Java, Indonesia, July 1946. Indonesian War of Independence.
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World War II Marine manning a machine gun after rescuing a temporarily blinded pilot from Rabaul Harbor, New Guinea, while under enemy fire from shore, 1944
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West Virginia coal mine, circa 1940. [781 x 619]
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The booking photos of German Communist and "street-fighter" Albrecht Höhler, taken after his arrest for killing Nazi Party member Horst Wessel. The killing of Horst Wessel is notable since the Nazis turned him into a martyr for their cause, Weimar Republic, 1930 [1380 × 667].
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Tourists having tea and sunbathing at the top of the Great Pyramid, 1938 [960 x 826]
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''Berlin Diary [Today we reached Smolensk]'' - political cartoon made by Canadian cartoonist John Collins (''The Gazette''), February 1942
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Princess Diana visits British Petroleum's 'Forties Charlie' oil platform off the Scottish coast, Sept. 3 1985 [790x528]
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This 1870 image is considered the first actual photograph taken of a battle. Taken during the Franco-Prussian war, it shows a line of Prussian troops advancing. The photographer stood with the French defenders when he captured this image. [2174x1280]
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Indian Army Sikh personnel in action during the successful Operation Crusader in December 1941. (631×484)
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1944 - We found my grandpa on Netflix’s ‘WW2 In Color: Battle of the Bulge’ and started crying
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A D-44 field gun of the North Vietnamese army being used in a counter-battery role during an attack on Dốc Miếu military base, the Vietnam war 1968 [1008 x 1000]
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My 3x great grandfather, William Joseph demonstrating Nisenan tribe arrow techniques in California. Born in 1857 he was the last in our family to grow up knowing only indigenous life. As a teen he integrated and spent his life teaching the old ways as an ethnographic informant. c1930 [1129x1776]
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In the aftermath of the D-Day invasion, two boys watch from a hilltop as American soldiers drive through the town of St. Lo. France, 1944. [964x940]
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German Afrika Korps soldiers manning a 20mm anti-aircraft cannon (2-cm FlaK 30/38)
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1930s Mickey and Minnie Mouse costumes
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The Statue of Liberty surrounded by scaffolding as workers complete the final stages in Paris. Circa 1885. [964x1013]
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Vivian Maier-self portrait 1953
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[1920x950] Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov has been fixed and is underway!
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A woman milking a cow with an elephant's head. April Fool's joke on the Dutch illustrated magazine 'Het Leven' (Netherlands 1932) [3453x2580]
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Leonard Cohen performs for Israeli troops in the Sinai during the 1973 Yom Kippur War [1024x640]
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A dolmen hidden in a forest (Bezonnes, France)
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A Benet-Mercier machine gun section of 2nd Rajput Light Infantry in action in Flanders, during the winter of 1914-15. (960×696)
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Henry Magruder, a notorious bushwhacker. Bushwhackers were pro-Confederate guerillas who were active in the 1860s. They led raids against the military. Many were also notorious for committing war crimes. Magruder raped multiple women and burned a free black man alive [856 x 1198].
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"The gangs in this neighborhood are so illiterate..." - American cartoonist Oliver Markus Malloy Gaspirtz ("Police Humor: The Lighter Side of Law Enforcement"), 2017
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