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Painting depicting the Battle of Khidrana (later known as the Battle of Muktsar), Sikh school, Punjab Plains, late 19th century. It depicts the story of the Chali Mukte (forty martyrs) with Guru Gobind Singh tearing up their letter.
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A young Kuwaiti child clutches a hand gun as Kuwaiti’s celebrate the liberation of Kuwait City from Iraqi forces by U.S. led troops. February 1991.[910x1300]
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Dr H. Whitman's bearded mechanical man that talks & sings, 1909. [464x637]
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The end of a 600-year Ottoman Empire, Last Sultan Vahideddin leaves Istanbul. November 17, 1922 [800x521]
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Farm-Fresh: 1942- Photo by John Vachon.
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A gay landlord is still a landlord. San Francisco, 1977
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Tom Hanks at Skyline High in Oakland, 1972 (602x739)
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Abandoned French fortification on the French-German border, May 1940
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German civilians being forced to witness the crimes of Nazi regime, 1945. [2240x2792]
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Parade of the 77th Division, May 6, 1919. Color sergeant Sing Kee (2nd from right), was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the French Croix de Guerre. He was the first Chinese American to be decorated for bravery. (1000x779)
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Hitler sneezing at a Party rally in Munich, 1935. [735x1144]
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“The Maginot Line is a tough defense to crack!” Allied propaganda, 1939.
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The body of a fallen Soviet soldier on Jozsef Boulevard. Budapest, Hungary. 1956 [560x852]
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Adolf Hitler's office at the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Circa 1939. [634x430]
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Vietnam War protestors at the March on the Pentagon. 21 October 1967 [800x1198]
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Claire Bertschinger feeding an Ethiopian child. Bertschinger's work in Ethiopia in 1984 inspired Band Aid and subsequently Live Aid, the biggest relief programme ever mounted (Ethiopia 1984) [2772x1840]
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Chilean goalkeeper cut himself with a razor blade hidden in one of his gloves and pretended to be hurt by a flare thrown by Brazilian fans in a World Cup qualifier, so that Chile would have been gifted the win. 3 September 1989 (505 x 349)
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Living the American Dream, Detroit, Michigan, 1954. All this on a Ford factory worker’s wages! [2000x1963]
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The Clinton family dog "Buddy" retrieving a tennis ball from the White House fountain pool. 12 July 1998 [2080 × 3150]
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Aloisia Wagner, better known by her stage name Violetta, was a German-American woman who was born without legs or arms with a condition known as tetra-amelia syndrome. She was born in Hemelingen, Germany, and had a lengthy career in sideshow performance, 1925. [320×496]
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German cartoon from the Second World War (ca. 1943) showing an Englishman enjoying his garden unaware of the Soviet train speeding towards him.
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American soldier with a captured FG-42 automatic rifle. It looks way smaller than I had imagined. (See pic for colorization credits)
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Steve Perry, lead singer of the legendary band "Journey", and then girlfriend Sherrie Swafford, who was the inspiration for one of the band's most famous hits " Oh Sherrie"... 1980s
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Christine Collins was a California mother whose son went missing in 1928. Five months, police found a boy who claimed to be her son. After Christine said he wasn't, the police asked her to "try the boy out." After Christine insisted, she was committed to a mental hospital [602 x 777].
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Siamese Boatman with Sugar Cane ~ John Thomson, 1866
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Speculation is equal to robbery. Expose the speculates! 1970s Soviet Poster. Reselling goods for profit was considered a crime in the USSR, punishable by up to two years in prison.
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Stasi agent (watching the camera man) in a forest in the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik), c. 1970s. [631 x 466]
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Message from General Dwight Eisenhower requesting that members of Congress visit concentration camps in person in order to witness the atrocities of the Nazis firsthand, 1945, via Presidential Wisdom on Twitter [1284 x 1597]
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Christopher Lee and his wife Birgit Krøncke with their 1966 Mercedes Benz 300 SE
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