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The 1980s, when you went to the games instead of the games coming to you. [1187 x 839]
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DSV Alvin carries Dr. Robert Ballard and two pilots to the wreck of RMS Titanic, July 1986 [1350x915]
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Coca-Cola being delivered in Tennessee, 1909 [827x574]
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The Vichy French battleship Jean Bart which was bombed by the US at Casablanca, 16 November 1942. [1024x812]
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Franz Reichelt, a French tailor and inventor who was an early pioneer of parachuting. In 1910-1912 he developed a wearable suit for pilots that would expand into a parachute should they need to eject themselves from their aircraft. The test jump from the Eiffel Tower ended tragically. (800x800)
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"Would YOU buy a used car from this man?" - Kennedy campaign poster (1960)
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Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, marching in Washington, DC, on September 13, 1926. [737 x 912].
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2 boys (vaccinated earlier and unvaccinated) during pox epidemy in London, beginning of 1900s [649x487]
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On display in the halls of the Pentagon in 2023: 'Hide Your Head In The Sand' By Harley Copic Latrine Port-O-John at Tallil AB, Iraq, April 2003.
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Promotional photo of “The French Chef” with Julia Child, 1964 [1415x1062]
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The Panorama of Racławice - the panoramic, 360°, 114-metre-wide depiction of the 1794 Battle of Racławice, painted in 1893-1894 by Jan Styka and Wojciech Kossak.
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Emperor of Central Africa Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Bokassa I), seated on his golden throne for his coronation, Bangui, Central African Republic. December 4, 1977. (1200x860)
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Frankish lords pay homage to Clovis II, king of the Franks of Neustria and Burgundy, who ascended the throne at the age of four after the death of his father, Dagobert I. By Albert Maignan
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Bosnian guard armed with a Zastava M70 assault rifle: he was escorting the Bride and Groom at a wedding in Sarajevo - during the Bosnian War and Breakup of Yugoslavia, c. 1993 [960 x 637]
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Aigle Castle, Switzerland.
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Catholic cartoon showing the graves of Stalin, Hitler, Bismarck, Attila and Nero all engraved with the words 'I will destroy the Church'. USA, March 1953.
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Howard Baskerville was an american teacher who joined the constitutional revolutionaries in iran (1907). he led his own squad during the civil war and died fighting the government forces. The whole city attended at his funeral and people respected him as martyr and a national hero. (180×258)
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American and Russian peacekeepers share their military rations with each other. Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 1996. [720x600]
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Kriegsmarine E-boats surrendered at Portsmouth, June 1945 (1731x1249)
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Aleut mother and her child, Attu Island, Alaska (1941) (1185x800)
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An American family in front of their home, early 1900s
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British Leyland Line steamship SS Californian - seen from RMS Carpathia, after the sinking of RMS Titanic. Carpathia and the Californian picked up survivors, and recovered numerous bodies of deceased passengers who had froze to death, April 15th, 1912. [960 x 578]
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Bathysphere: The World’s First Deep-Sea Exploration Vessel, 1930s. It was created by American naturalist William Beebe, pictured inside the vessel, and engineer Otis Barton. [800x868]
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ERB - Anderson by Ducos Guillaume (Herckeim)
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Behind the scenes of Max Reinhardt's 1935 adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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US Marine Randall Sprenger putting the finishing touches on B-29 Superfortress “Little Gem” - Saipan, 1944 [639x455]
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French soldier whose face was mutilated in World War I, being fitted with a mask made at the American Red Cross studio of Anna Coleman Ladd, 1918. [1600x1192]
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This Might Have Been A Scalpel! (c. 1943)
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Guy de Rothschild and Marie-Hélène de Rothschild. The Rothschild's Surrealist Ball, 1972 (705x960)
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Four SS men pose for a group photo in the Treblinka extermination camp. Each one of them personally committed mass murder. Paul Bredow (leftmost) shot 50 Jews every day for "target practice". Josef Hirtreiter (rightmost) smashed the heads of infants against walls, 1940s [840 x 557].
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