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Superman in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. New York City, November 21, 1940

My Grandma Dorothy

Stunt double Relna Brewer Mcrae and 1st all women gym owner in California Abbye Stockton, lift Milo globe 100 pounds dumbells at Santa Monica, California, ca. 1946

Banner during a solidarity Demonstration with Ukraine in Syria, 2014

German soldiers entering a Soldatenbordell in Brest, France (1940). The building is a former synagog (7105×4724)

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Dutch cyclist Piet Van Kempen circles the track at Wembley during a six day cycling event, London, 25th September 1936
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September 1917 American Expeditionary Force parades in front of Buckingham palace. When the British paraded through the American capitol 103 years previous they burned it to the ground
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Motorcycle patrol by occupying German troops on Jersey, 1941.
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Peasant children lined up for food hand during the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. The consensus is that around 30 million people died in the famine. The famine was caused by communist policies during the failed Great Leap Forward economic campaign and natural disasters.
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“The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Isherwood (DD-520) steams off Ie Shima, during the fighting there in mid-April 1945.” Original color WWII photo of artillery shells hitting Japanese positions on the island of Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa, April 1945.
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Ali Maow Maalin, the last known person in the world with smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery (Merca, Somalia 1977)
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1967 Press Photo The Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
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Interrogation of a captured German non-commissioned officer, captured along with the loot. 1941
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8th Air Force Boeing B-17E 41-9154 “THE BAT OUTA HELL” at RAF Polebrook, England, October 1942 (LIFE Magazine Archives Margaret Bourke-White Photographer)
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Young Wife from 1926
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Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen photographed by Steve Emberton, 1978. .
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Gaza in Ruins during the First World War (1917)
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Party leaders pay their respect to Chairman Mao lying in state; from the left, Hua Guofeng, Wang Hongwen, Ye Jianying, Zhang Chunqiao, Jiang Qing, Yao Wenyuan, and Li Xiannian. 13th September 1976.
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Strike photo taken from USS Intrepid aircraft showing severe damage to the runways and the surrounding areas on Roi Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1 Feb 1944.
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Commonwealth tank crews being instructed on their newly delivered M3 Grant medium tanks. Early 1942, North Africa.
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Chess class in a school, 1975, Pskov, USSR.
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Street in the mill district in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1941, Photo by Jack Delano.
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French President François Mitterrand and General Maurice Schmitt visit the battlefield of Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam, 1993.
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Broadway New-York 1952.
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Fidel Castro and Agostinho Neto, leader of MPLA, July 1976. Cuba became the most important ally of MPLA in the Angolan civil war, sending up to 350,000 soldiers to fight the UNITA, backed by US and South Africa
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