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  A family poses in front of a 1,341 year old Sequoia tree nicknamed “Mark Twain” that was felled in 1892 after a team of two men spent 13 days sawing it in the Pacific Northwest. The giant tree was 331 feet tall (100 meters).

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  ‘Afghanistan’ By Etta Hulme (1983)

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  My grandmother, 1950s

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  President Eisenhower arriving at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan 1959

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  Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev laughing while rubbing the stomach of an American farmer during a state visit to the United States, Iowa 1959

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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) .

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  Jacques Cousteau and his crew in a submersible during the Conshelf II Expedition in the Red Sea, 1963.

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  A newly born lamb snuggles up to a sleeping boy, 1940

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  Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of Iron Maiden, performing a concert in besieged Sarajevo in December 1994(500×281)

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  School Begins, United States (1899)

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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

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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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  ‘The world of the new authoritarians’. 2020 French book cover criticizing authoritarian world leaders such as Putin, Xi and Erdogan.

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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)

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  Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (1882-1951) and his daughter Princess Alexandrine. Princess Alexandrine was born with Down syndrome. (1916)

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  ‘The Procession of the Dead’ under the Arc de Triomphe during the Paris Victory Parade July 14, 1919 by the French painter Georges Scott (1934)

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  Soviet oncologist. Photo by Yuri Kuidin, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1973

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  German postcard: God Punish England! 1917.

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  Here’s what City Hall in San Francisco, California, looked like in 1935.

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  Tourism With A Conscience (International Herald Tribune, 2008)

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