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I got my ass beat for this!!! It’s funny now 1975-76.
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'Vote for Keir Hardie' - his 1895 election campaign poster. In 1900, Hardie would go on to help found the UK Labour Party.
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Soviet sub-machine gunner during an offensive on Village S.
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In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay (Sherpa) were the first human beings to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest. This is the only proof. It is a photo that Hillary took of Norgay with his axe. Norgay offered to take one of Hillary but he declined. The stayed at the summit for 15 minutes.
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New Twitter account posting stuff from the USSR, the PRC and the GDR: "The Yangtse River Bridge at Nanking", Chinese poster, 1973
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My grandmother was one of the first women to be a train engineer for Union Pacific, possibly the first in her state (mid-1970s)
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Bruce Lee training routine , mid 60,s
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WWII - Commando Officer Lieutenant Sidney Read by Ivor Hele. (437 x 653)
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The first wave of Marine landing craft head towards the beaches of Iwo Jima. 08:59, 19 February 1945.[740x587]
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Freddie Mercury and Micheal Jackson in 1982 [1065x1167]
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Pvt. Joseph A. Zbin, Cleveland, Ohio, of Company A, 338th Infantry Regiment. carrying a 90 lb load of mortar ammo through town of Scauri, Italy. 16 May, 1944 [4387 × 5159]
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Sharon Tate showing off the baby clothing she had bought in London, UK in 1969. [798x1200]
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View of Fremont Street with a car racing (Las Vegas, Nevada c1928) [2867x1861]
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A woman in Bayeux looks out the window at the Allied military passing through town. A tricolor flag rises again, 1944 [800x600].
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'Remember … This Unknown Communist has a SOUL' — American prayer card (ca. 1950) urging worshippers to pray for the souls of communists
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Current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dressed as Sikh to avoid arrest during Political Emergency in 1984. [1200×1687]
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A regiment of Vietminh soldiers celebrating after capturing and destroying a French stronghold, behind them is the burning wreckage of the stronghold. The First Indochina War 1949 [1240 x 1121]
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"Four 'stick' commanders of 22nd IPC, 6th Airborne Division, synchronising their watches in front of an Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle at about 11 pm on 5 June 1944, just prior to take off from RAF Harwell in Oxfordshire. They were among the first troops to land in France." [3488x2480]
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The guided missile frigate USS Stark (FFG 31) listing to port after being struck by two Iraqi-launched Exocet missiles. 37 sailors were killed. 18 May 1987 [3000 × 2058]
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biplane over the Washington, DC, Oct. 14, 1910. [640x359]
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Combining phones and televisions: is it even possible?
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A mother and daughter mourning the death of Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers) during a pubic memorial service at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 3, 2003 [553 x 427]
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WW2 Le Goumier Marocain deployed in Italy 1944.
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Me and friends riding in the back of parent's station wagon. This is how we rolled in 1971.
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Margaux & Mariel Hemingway at Studio 54, 1979
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Lounge interior of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) Convair 880. 8 January 1958 [2150 × 1638]
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Large crowd looking at the burned body of Jesse Washington, an African American teenager lynched in Waco, Texas, May 15, 1916 [1879 × 1323]
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THE DESIRE OF ALL, By Danilo Cicero, Digital collage piece, 2023
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In honor of Mother’s Day. My mom in the 80s
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Robert Kennedy as a staffer for Sen. Joseph McCarthy, 1952. The red-baiter from Wisconsin was a Kennedy family friend and ally. He dated two of Bobby's sisters, and served as godfather to Bobby's first daughter. [432 x 531]
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