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"The twin towers ten years later." 2011
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A Zulu tribesman pulls a tourist in a pedicab in Durban, Union of South Africa. Photo by Melville Chater, 1930's [636x865]
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War Pieta, 2007, by Max Ginsburg
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White women protest desegregation in front of a church in Fort Worth, Texas, on October 9, 1956. [500x620]
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My grandma in 1969, age 22
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) - "Automobiles Have Come"
https://youtu.be/gpRyT1sgEg0
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Death of Mao Zedong, September 9, 1976 [1284×645]
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"Early Morning". Photograph by Kurt Hutton, 1949. Colorized. [2436x3746].
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America’s teenager: Dick Clark, Testing of Dentyne gum advertising, 1956. [1318x1585]
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USAF TSgt Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline 'I Am A Homosexual'. Matlovich was the first named openly gay person to appear on the cover of a US newsmagazine (United States 1975) [1760x2378]
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Deposed Ugandan dictator Idi Amin on his deathbed, August 2003. Overthrown in 1979, Amin lived the majority of the rest of his life in relative obscurity in Saudi Arabia. (1920 X 1080)
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Dr. Hunter S Thompson on his porch in Woody Creek, Colorado. July 1983. (2500 X 1973)
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Gene Jantzen with wife Pat and 11-month-old son Kent (1947). [2160x1620]
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Burt Reynolds’s at his ranch in Jupiter, FL, 1972- check out that shag carpet!
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A Native American, Belonging To The Ojibwe People, Spear Fishing In A Lake Somewhere In Minnesota, 1908 [700x700]
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Removing rocks obstructing the Hell Gate, a narrow tidal strait in New York's East River. It used 300,000 pounds (140,000 kg) of explosives, probably the largest artificial explosion in the 19th century. October 10, 1885, scan from a book from 1893 [1303×806]
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Anti-Shah propaganda poster. In 1979, a huge Shi'a Muslim revolution took down Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Ayatollah Khomeini took the reign. The painting depicts Khomeini holding the Quran over Iran as the Shah leaves humiliated accompanied by his dog, with coins dropping.
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"Don't hurt children!" USSR 1979
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On this day 80 years ago the battleship Roma, flagship of the Italian battlefleet, was sunk by a Fritz-X bomb following the Armistice of Cassibile. 9 September 1943 [828 x 522]
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Fossil skeleton of Archelon, a giant Cretaceous turtle, Weighs more than 2.2 tons and is 4.6 meters long. Yale Museum, 1902. [1190×1258]
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Yahoo! co-founder David Filo, Sunnyvale CA (1996) [1200x794]
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IRA propagande poster (1980")
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Oldest aerial photograph, This Boston area photo is the oldest aerial photograph in existence. Furthermore, it was taken in October 1860. [700×825]
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Three of Africa's most notorious dictators, Mobutu Sese Seko of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Idi Amin of Uganda, and Jean-Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Republic meeting in 1976. (637 X 483)
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To be cool in 1964 you had to own an album by The Faith Tones
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American elections. Soviet Union, 1970s
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The tiny platinum bullet which killed BBC broadcaster Georgi Markov, who had defected from Bulgaria in 1969. The pellet measured 1.7 mm/1/16 in, and contained ricin, a deadly poison. It was injected into Markov's leg using an umbrella, while he was waiting to take a bus (London, UK 1978) [2867x2133]
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A street in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, United States, photographed by Jack Delano in January 1941. Credit: sebcolorisation on Instagram
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Queen Street in Brisbane, Australia during the 1893 Brisbane floods [1000 × 754]
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