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Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi sobbing during the funeral of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser, 1970. Gaddafi idolized Nasser & considered him to be his personal hero, he was so distraught throughout the service that he fainted multiple times (856x820)
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Sunbathing pinup girls, 1926
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Kim Novak 1950s Timeless Star
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African-Americans protest against the Vietnam war during the Harlem Peace March, 1967
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Supporting troops of the 1st Australian Division walking on a duckboard track near Hooge, in the Ypres Sector, 5th October 1917 [1200x900]
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Miss Jane Easton in the 1950s
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US Army soldier Jonathan Millantz (left) and Lt. Phil Blanchard (right) smile as an Iraqi detainee is forced to hold up a large wooden board. Millantz claims the detainee held the board for 45 minutes until his wrists eventually broke from the strain. (Approx 2003) [1170x776]
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Left-hand amputee soldier of the Spanish Republican Army aiming an 8mm Steyr Mannlicher rifle. Sometime during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) [1024x770]
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Marguerite Headen sits with a photo of her late husband, John M. Smith, who went MIA with 2 other U.S. Marines in Okinawa in 1945. Their remains had just been identified. The three were murdered in retaliation for raping local women. Headen was in total denial of the story (Ohio, 2000) [522 x 764].
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LBJ visiting Eisenhower at Walter Reed after Ike's 7th heart attack in 1968.[1200 x 812]
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Soviet leadership sign a treaty with 'Finnish Democratic Republic' the day Moscow started the Winter War with Finland, Nov. 30, 1939 [900 x 656]
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2 suspect in police custody following their failed robbery of a Manhattan restaurant,1956 [640x522]
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HMS Dauntless coming into Portsmouth this morning after her deployment [4032x3024]
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Dukakis in search of a running mate (1988)
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Winston Churchill seen in 1928 building a cottage at his Chartwell estate, used bricklaying to balance his writing, joking he produced “200 bricks and 2,000 words a day.” Later that year he even joined the Amalgamated Union of Building Trades Workers as a bricklayer. [1620×1157].
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Arrest photos of IRA members Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan, taken after the two assassinated fanatically anti-Irish British Field Marshal Henry Wilson on his front doorstep in London. The ensuing crisis was the immediate trigger for the Irish Civil War (Wandsworth Prison, 1922) [620 x 447].
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Jacqueline Bisset in 1973
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A Dutch athlete receives a portrait of Adolf Hitler as a prize from General Schumann, The Netherlands, 1941 [1080×1530]
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Cancel by Karl Kopinski
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Assault Guards of the Second Spanish Republic standing in the rubble-laden streets of Barcelona. The guardsman on the right carries a clip of ammunition for a Hotchkiss machine gun, tucked in his belt. Sometime during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) [1920x1237]
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Margarete Buber-Neumann, Survivor of both Nazi Concentration camps and Soviet Gulags(1930)(330*487)
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[OC] Kindhearted Meilun (from my worldbuilding project; lore in OP)
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Sofia Vergara in Miami, 1998
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Actress Susan Anton -- circa 1990s
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American dream // Soviet Union // 1951
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Young Jewish refugees who fled Arab countries (Yemen in this instance) in Beit Lid Ma'abara, temporary refugee camp, 1950 [1200x728]
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Young Girl 1947, drives about in her Tiny Car, NYC
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Valeri Kharlamov against Viktor Zinger somewhere in the 70s
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16th October, 1946. Hermann Goering lay dead after committing suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill he smuggled into his cell, 2 hours before he was due to be hung. Photo by Edward F. McLaughlin. [1483x1200]
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M. Vitry, a member of the Departmental Guard, was one of the last surviving veterans of Napoleon's army. He is shown here in full dress uniform, wearing the Saint Helene medal (issued August 12 1857, to all veterans of the wars of the Napoleonic Empire, photographed in 1858 [1200x900]
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