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  Portrait of Vance a Trapper Boy (15 years old), 1908. He has trapped for several years. $.75 a day for 10 hours work. All he does is to open and shut this door: most of the time he sits here idle, waiting for the cars to come. Photo by Lewis Hine

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  Winston Churchill moved to tears following a tribute to his legacy shortly after his resignation as Prime Minister, 1955. Churchill would remain a British MP until 1964, but would never again return to the position of Prime Minister (1200×980)

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  The Tears of Robert McNamara (Jack Ohman, 1995)

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  My grandparents in 1947. Grandma passed yesterday at 98 years old.

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  The severed head and arm of Diéry Dior Ndella Fall displayed by a French colonial administrator in Thiès, Senegal, April 1904

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  Man poses for a photo in-front of Soyuz rocket, Baikonur, Kazakh SSR, 1980s.

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  Workers change speed limit signage due to the National Maximum Speed Law signed into law by Richard Nixon, 1974

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  The Majority is Not Silent. The Administration is Deaf. 1969, Anti-Nixon

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  ‘What atrocities the Muscovites commit’. Propaganda leaflet about the Livonian War, Holy Roman Empire, 1561

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  My great-great grandmother with some of her children and stepchildren. Not sure of date but believe around 1900. Philadelphia, PA

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  Egyptian-born Israeli spy Eli Cohen, who was publicly executed after his true allegiance was uncovered by Syrian intelligence. Damascus, 1965

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  From the 1930s, when Nepal’s king Juddha Shumsher went on a hunting expedition.

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  Swedish warships camouflaged in Smörkullen, Sweden, 1942.

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  Bizarre moment of a Turkish Airlines plane hijacking in 1980 (1200×911)

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  Chinese design (2020) showing the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan being destroyed by the Nanjing Massacre memorial cross.

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  London on 24 April 1993, after Irish terrorists detonated a bomb.

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  ‘Oh! But they are kind, the little negresses, and tame!’ French Colonial Cigarette Card by Albert Bergeret, Circa 1901

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  French aircraft carrier Clemenceau (R98, top) passing her sister ship Foch (R99, bottom) off Toulon, France, in 1997

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  Photos from the last Romanov costume ball held at Winter Palace in 1903. It was held in the in two stages, on February 11 and 13

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  (1179 x 1175) Scrapping of the Italian helicopter carrier cruiser Vittorio Veneto in Aliağa, Turkey, in 2021

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