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Vincenzo Peruggia in the courtroom. On 21 August 1911, Peruggia stolen the Mona Lisa. He walked into the Louvre and, noticing it had no guards or visitors, took the painting off its pegs, removed it from the frame, and walked out of the museum with it under his arm (Florence, Italy 1914) [2193x2867]
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Ric Flair meeting a 12-year-old Dwayne Johnson circa 1984
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July 1940.Migrants-Photo byJack Delano
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George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party lay dead after being assassinated by former member, John Patler in 1967. [1080 x 894]
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A very dapper secretary of the Embassy of Japan in the US. Taketomi Toshihiko, seated with his wife. Washington D.C. October 24, 1922 [1075 x 1300][Colorized]
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East Germans surprise Hungarian border guards and rush through a gate into Austria. Austria and Hungary had agreed to open the border for 3 hours, to let a peace demonstration to happen, but more than 600 East Germans suddenly arrived and fled to the West (Sopron, Hungary 1989) [2600x1560]
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British MP Joan Lestor attends a memorial service for Steve Biko at St-Martin-in-the-Fields, to mark the anniversary of the Anti-Apartheid activist's death in detention in South Africa. Draped is a list of 50 other prisoners known to have died in South African detention (London, UK 1978) [2867x2865]
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Group photo of Allied government and military leaders from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom during the First Quebec Conference, codenamed Quadrant. 18 August 1943 [2868 × 2412]
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Did anyone else have a celebrity crush on Barbara Eden, from the sitcom I Dream of Genie (1965-1970)?
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Charles Aznavour protesting the Azerbaijani blockade against Nagorno Karabakh (Paris 1991) [1583x1097]
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Police raided the Scientology headquarters in Toronto and seized an estimated 250,000 documents in more than 900 boxes. 1983. [1288 x 892].
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Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland
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Yucca Flat Atomic Test, March 17, 1953 [1280x1451]
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A Polish girl walks in front of a March for the Kurdish people in the Polish city of Kielce, 1974. (560x752)
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Paparazzi surrounding Socks, Bill Clinton's cat, circa 1992 [960x704]
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Necmettin Erbakan, then Sharia Prime Minister of Turkiye, signs the decisions taken after negotiations with the secularist and Ataturkist army. February 28, 1997 [1080x1051]
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The grandson of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter confirmed Jimmy is in the final chapter.
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1500s European illustration depicting European traveller Hans Staden watching a cannibalistic ritual in Brazil.
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Kids enjoying the ice cream truck in Brooklyn, New York, 1948 [600x600]
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In the city of Hamburg, the bodies of German civilians lay on the sidewalk following an Royal Air Force raid on the city. July 1943.[910x589]
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Sculptor Frederick Hart completing the clay model of his Vietnam Veterans Memorial statue The Three Soldiers, 1983. [661 x 1000]
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Students cheering after school caught on fire. February 15th, 1939 [1600 x 1619]
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A five minute exposure of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department helicopter circling above Carson, California. 8 May 1986 [2531 × 1485]
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The Company Sign by Jacobus Belsen, 1931
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Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, photographed with pillow case over head in Ottawa, Ontario 1954 [4869 x 3641]. Gouzenko was a clerk in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa and defected 3 days after the end of World War II. His defection is regarded as a catalyst for the start of the Cold War.
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A group of youngsters tied a bicycle tubes around their body as a swimming aid. Germany, 1925. [708×623]
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A pile of dead German soldiers killed during the Allied recapture of Cherbourg, France. 1 July 1944.
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[2365x2364] Can someone tell me how rare this is?
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"For 1922 years Mary had given birth to Jesus, and in 1923 she gave birth to a member of the Komsomol", Russian Soviet Republic, 1923
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