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American journalist Peter Bergen with Islamic terrorist & Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden during the latter's first televised interview, 1997. Bin-Laden was born into a powerful & conservative family within the Saudi aristocracy who officially disavowed his activities 3 years prior (3200x2400)
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The booking photo of Helen Spence, 18, after she murdered the man on trial for murdering her father and raping and murdering her stepmother. She later murdered another man for sexually harassing and threatening her. Helen was the inspiration for Mattie Ross in True Grit (Arkansas, 1931) [345 x 500].
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Very young German POWs in the Sauer River region during the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945. [1716x2046]
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Actress Jean Peters -- publicity photo (1951)
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An Khe Army base, aka 'the Golf Course', the helipad of the 1st Cavalry Division, central Vietnam, 1965. Photo taken by Larry Burrows [671 × 839]
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Cpl. Roy Jordan digs in for the night in frozen ground of the Ardennes Forest during the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944. [2048x1938]
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A soldier from the 369th Infantry Regiment, popularly known as the Harlem Hellfighters, holding a puppy he reportedly rescued during the war 1918 (1170 × 1165 )
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A group of kids had arranged to care and feed the dog after the owner had died, England 1936[700x688]
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Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (1882-1951) and his daughter Princess Alexandrine. Princess Alexandrine was born with Down syndrome. (1916)[946x1300]
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A Saudi shepherd, Saeed Alanzi, fought a leopard that attacked a ewe in his flock. He then went to the hospital with the leopard's severed head as evidence of the source of his injuries, 1975 [700x584]
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A 30th Infantry Division Willys jeep in Malmedy Belgium, January 27, 1945. Note the vertical bar modification to the front bumper to protect GIs from German wire boobytraps. [1400x1103]
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13-year-old Iranian child soldier Hassan Janju crawls through a marsh during combat with Iraqi forces. Hassan would die four years later at the age of 16. Southern Iran, 1980. [1910x1273]
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Actual photo of Albert Einstein lecturing on the Theory of Relativity, 1922 [640 × 640]
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Polaroid of Steve Buscemi in drag on the set of Somebody to Love (1994)
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Jacques Cousteau and his crew in a submersible during the Conshelf II Expedition in the Red Sea, 1963. [981 x 652]
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Monument to the Conquerors of Space, (1977), Dzhezkazgan, Kazakh SSR. Artist: L. Pak, Architect: K. Turlybaev, Sculptor: N. Andreev
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My Grandma met Bill Cosby, but doesn’t remember it ~ 1978
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U.S. President Jimmy Carter with Nigerian Head of State Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo at the White House, Washington, D.C., October 11, 1977 [1247×1536]
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Members of the 101st Airborne Infantry Division and the 4th Infantry Division crowd aboard an LCT on the way to Utah Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev greets East German leader Erich Honecker during the 30th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic, East Berlin, October 1979 [1320×880]
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Members of the 101st Airborne Infantry Division and the 4th Infantry Division crowd aboard an LCT on the way to Utah Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944. [2912 × 2496]
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Mug shot of Australian criminal Sydney Skukerman, arrested for having "obtained goods from warehousemen by falsely representing that he is in business" (1924) [1434x1029]
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Sure, it's cold and snowy, but, not 1978 snowy. Photo from the blizzard of 1978 in Cortland, New York [676 × 960]
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I wasn’t very cool as a kid, but in 1986 I had a pet raccoon.
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Major General Smedley Butler, 2 time Medal of Honor recipient and veteran of the Spanish American war, Phillipine American war, Banana Wars, Boxer Rebellion, battle of Vera Cruz and Caco War, 1922[830x469]
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A photograph of a little boy carrying a newborn lamb, in Scotland, 1932 [900x600]
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Spymaster Brigadier Yasub Dogar from Pakistan's ISI enjoying qahwa (tea) on a mountain top in Gardez, Afghanistan whilst the Soviet ammunition depots are being destroyed in the background. Soviet-Afghan war, early 1980s, [1012×675]
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Soviet poster captioned 'Make way for corn! from Khrushchev era 1960s [508 × 720]
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GIs showing off a German "King Tiger" tank that was knocked out by tank destroyers of the 82nd Airborne Division in Coronne, Belgium. The entire tank crew was killed. January 8, 1945. [800x520]
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