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"Frontline City Frankfurt will be held!" Nazi Propaganda Poster calling for the defense of Frankfurt, Early 1945
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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia fooling around. Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna is sick in bed on the left. (1915) [2008 × 1990]
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My grandpa and my dad after a decent day of fishing. Dad would’ve been almost 8. July 1955
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Forte Sangallo, Italy 🇮🇹
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Donald Trump visits a reception on a business trip to Moscow, Russia. Photo by Igor Tabakov. 05-Nov-1996 [1037x818]
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A dapper looking undercover detective disarms a man with a razor who attacked protest marchers during an Irish solidarity parade, Glasgow, Scotland, 1971
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Caricature from the Soviet satirical magazine Krokodil (1979)
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A teenage boy giving flowers to princess diana with the help of his friends, 1989 [1200x900]
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Captain Herbert Sobel, of Band of Brothers infamy, with his infant son, ca 1946 [960x692]
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"What progress since 1914! Finally, the Germans are self-sufficient in warmaking!" A cartoon satirising political violence from the German weekly "Simplicissmus," August 1932
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The body of Dom Pedro II, the last Emperor of Brazil, who died in exile 2 years after being overthrown, 1891. Pedro's reign lasted for almost 6 decades, beginning when he was only 6 years old. He was a leading intellectual of his time, regarded by some as a savant, & spoke 14 languages (2250x2588)
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Rare photo of US President Woodrow Wilson in which his famously bad teeth can be seen, 1910's (1355x1080)
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Jake LaMotta (1922-2017), the "Raging Bull", in 2012. Well-known for his six fights with Sugar Ray Robinson and swarmer style which necessitated he absorb extreme punishment, he was also a self confessed rapist and attempted murderer with turbulent mob associations (1200 x 800).
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King George V's 10-day royal hunting expedition in Nepal. Numerous tigers, rhinoceros, bears, leopards, deer, boar, porcupines and birds were killed with a massive 12,000 crew in 1911. [1500 x 1000]
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Donna Summer and her daughter Oct. 1977
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Students at Augustana College react to the not guilty verdict of O.J. Simpson’s murder trial. October 3rd, 1995 [620 x 457]
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Jamie Lee Curtis and Jennifer Love Hewitt 1998
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Peggy Seale Harris never learned what happened to her husband Billie, whose plane was shot down over Les Ventes, France in 1944. In 2005 she was shocked to learn the town had been memorializing him and his sacrifice for over 60 years. [640x822]
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US Justice By John Jonik , Published August 25, 2017
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Wife and Children of an Unemployed Coal Miner
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A French caricature mocking western famine tourists in India during the period of the British Raj, 1899
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'Bashar Assad: "Gee . . . I'm not sure if I'm up to filling my father's shoes!"' (2000)
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80 years ago today, USS Enterprise, "the fightingest ship in the navy", sails up the Hudson River prior to Navy Day celebrations in New York. 17 October 1945. [1024 × 744]
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A court clerk examines the cabin where Raymond Ellison, 37, and his 12-year-old wife, Imogene Sims, lived. Ellison, who married the girl to avoid statutory rape charges, had just been arrested for murdering her. The photo was publicized by the Louisville Courier Journal, Kentucky, 1948 [1104 x 804].
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"Hang Mandela" propaganda made by the student organisation of the British Conservative Party during the 1980s
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US President Dwight Eisenhower meeting with civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King Jr. after signing the 1960 civil rights act into law. (3000x2336)
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Actor Reggie Nadler, who played the Vampire Kurt Barlow in "Salem’s Lot", with effects mask from the movie.
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An anti-Communist Romanian civilian aims his PSL rifle during the Romanian Revolution, Bucharest, December 24, 1989. [2048 × 1328]
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