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My imaginary Elizabethan queen
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James Cameron on the set of Titanic, 1997.
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During the night of 23-24 February 1855, 900 Zouaves and 450 marines led by brigadier-general de Monet storm the Selinghinsk redoubt, a strongpoint of Sevastopol. But reinforcements bring Russian numbers to 9,000, and the French are forced back. Monet was wounded 5 times. By Edme-Adolphe Fontaine
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Photo taken by United States Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968 in the aftermath of the My Lai massacre showing mostly women and children dead on a road. (714 × 486)
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Japanese "hybrid" battleship Hyūga sunk in the shallow waters of Hiroshima Bay, 1945, Kure.[1225 × 790]
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In the 1940s, men dressed in shorts and cowboy boots served up to women at a drive through in Texas. [1290x1583]
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Kate Capshaw, Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan during the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984
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US Senator Strom Thurmond celebrating his 100th birthday on December 5th, 2003, about a month before leaving office (1024x882)
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Werner von Clemm was a prominent and well-connected banker who smuggled diamonds stolen from Holocaust victims in the Netherlands and Belgium into the United States. Werner was one of countless bankers who helped smuggle Nazi loot from occupied territories, New York, 1942 [1041 x 1280].
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My dads fishing license ~late 70s/early 80s
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My husband and me at our 20 year high school reunion, 1991
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Davide Chislagi, the Italian inventor of a version of the 'Monowheel', testing it out in 1933. He was one of many that had a go inventing these things... (1000x1424)
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U.S. Soldiers from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, watch an Iraqi paramilitary unit's headquarters burn during an assault on As-Samawah's north side. Operation Iraqi Freedom 4 April 2003 [882 × 1188]
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Two cheetahs were officially reintroduced to the wild in Kuno National Park, India yesterday after their extirpation from the country in 1952. Here is a miniature painting of Maharaja Sher Singh of the Sikh Empire being presented with an Asiatic Cheetah back when they were around, circa 1840–1845
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Dunnottar Castle, Scotland
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Benjamin Ferencz was the last surviving prosecutor from the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. In 1947, he became the chief prosecutor in what was called "the biggest murder trial in history". He spent his entire life fighting for justice for the victims of war crimes. He died this week [1199 x 674].
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Chinese Type-002 Carrier "Shandong" has been spotted 200 nautical miles off the east coast of Taiwan [683 x 1024]
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'Chile put on long trousers. The copper now is Chilean!' by Vicente Larrea (1971)
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The so-called "good Nazi" Albert Speer with Adolf Hitler, at Berghof. Successfully deceiving the court about his involvement and knowledge of atrocities committed by the Reich, he would only serve 20 years in prison. Author of best-seller "Inside the Third Reich", he died wealthy. [1939][1024x710]
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A kurdish peshmerga during kurdish uprising against iranian government 1979-1980.
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French diesel-electric submarines Daphné (S-641) and her sistership Diane (S-642) under construction, January 23, 1959.[2000 × 1510]
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'Sold in South Africa, bought by MI5, supplied to UFF/UDA death squads' — Mural, Belfast, 1992
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April 6th, 1941, Royal Court, Belgrade [2816x3847]
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Just me and my friend Doug having a soup and sandwich lunch on a homemade raft 1970
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Australian soldiers from the 61st Battalion (Queensland Cameron Highlanders) advance along the Mosigetta River on Bougainville Island in March 1945 during the campaign against the Japanese (640×479)
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Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the left, debates Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic presidential nominee, during a live broadcast from a New York television studio of their fourth presidential debate on October 21 1960 [982x651].
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Jilong Castle Country, China
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On the road to Baghdad, a US Marine Corps M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank lay destroyed after a firefight with Iraqi troops, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. 5 April 2003 [2064 × 1392]
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(1994) Airheads then and now (2022)
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Soviet model posing for a photoshoot, Moscow 1987 [724x1039]
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