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Fat Men's Club of NY (1904) Members had to be at least 200 pounds, pay a $1 fee to enter and learn a secret handshake and password.
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A man catcher for catching and holding prisoners as well as pulling riders off horseback by the neck, German, c. 1600-1800.
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Prince, standing victorious over Charlie Murphy during a game of basketball (1985).
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White protesters joining the march on Washington D.C. during the civil rights movement, August 1963. [1200x675]
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‘Two Andoke boys. They had just arrived with their loads of rubber. Casement mentions that “this tribe, once numerous, is now reduced all told to probably 150 persons, murdered by Armando Normand (one of the rubber station managers).”’ Photograph taken in the Putumayo, between 1910-1911. [1170x1520]
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In 1966 Bobbi Gibb was told she was disqualified from participating in the Boston Marathon because she was female; she crashed the race by hiding in a bush near the starting line and finished with a time of 3:21:40, crushing the glass ceiling for women runners everywhere. [545x624]
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Barricade constructed by revolutionaries of the Paris commune (1871) {800x850} (Blurriness caused by long exposure time)
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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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Futuristic gas station, USSR, 1980. [1037×756]
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Police photo of Josip Broz Tito, the Yugoslav leader, from 4.5.1928., after he and several other protesters attempted to free an arrested baker from the hands of the gendarmes in Zagreb. (811x1181)
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American people look at the rearranged European borders in 1918 after the First World War (1253x1265)
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"Don't Change Now" - Herbert Hoover campaign poster 1932. You can practically feel the desperation.
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Young lady enjoying a day at the beach, France, ca 1920 [640x800]
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Literal HistoryPorn- Martin B-26 Marauder “Lilly Commando” of the 573rd BS, 391st BG, 9th AF, 1944 [639x487]
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Fatlips Castle 🏰 Roxburghshire, Scotland
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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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