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  Percy Fawcett, who disappeared 100 years ago today and was never seen again whilst on an expedition into the Amazon Rainforest looking for a lost city he referred to as “Z”. May 1925,.

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  The road-oriented Wehrmacht force of 1941 was not prepared for the terrible conditions of unpaved Russian roads.

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  Mom and Dad 1959. Dad passed last year . Mom is doing well at 86. Taken in Bamberg, Germany.

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  John F. Schrank after his arrest. On October 14, 1912, Schrank shot former president and Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt outside a Milwaukee hotel. .

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  29 May 1953. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mount Everest.

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  ‘Evolution of a Russian’ english caricature from the 19th century

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  National Parks worker James Hudson uses a cloth-wrapped pole to clean Lincoln’s ear at the Lincoln Memorial in 1987 – Bettmann / Getty

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  LADY BE COOL (1974)

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  80 years ago today, on May 28, 1945, British fascist William Joyce (‘Lord Haw Haw’) was captured in Flensburg. He later became the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom.

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  A Dayak man gnaws on the severed leg of a killed Madurese settler, near Singkawang, Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. March, 1999.

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  Jarts (1976)

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  My great aunt Princess Anastasia Tumanishvili (1900-1917) (picture was taken in the mid 1910s)

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  Swedish Sámi Family in front of their traditional dwelling in Skansen. 29th August 1910

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  The Lincoln Memorial in 1920.

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  Einstein sitting outside a small wooden cottage near Cromer in Norfolk, England. He was the guest of Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, who sits on the ground next to the professor carrying a shotgun. Oliver had offered refuge to Einstein to help him avoid persecution by the Nazis. 1933.

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  Racial education class at a school for German girls, 1943

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  East Berlin in the late 1980s

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  A young Filipino girl is pictured sitting on a wooden bench in an enclosure and ‘displayed’ in Coney Island. New York, 1905.

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  Piggly Wiggly Delicatessen – May 1977 – Selma, AL

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  A photo of Emperor Menelik II after successfully defeating the Italians & saving Ethiopia from European colonization 1896

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