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Soviet anti-Nazi partisan, WW2, 1944

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A 'game' of Auto Polo, New York City, USA, 1912

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Gymnast mid-pole-vault, Germany, ~1902

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Cattle-drawn carriage, Jaipur, India, 1926

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Professional cigarette tester Sol C. Korn, USA, 1945

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Hare and Hedgehog costume from a fairytale ball in Munich, Germany, 1862

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Iron suspension bridge in Dhaka, India, 1904

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Ceremonial Winter Dance costume of the Kwakiutl people, Canada, 1914

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Flooding in the streets of Bangkok, Thailand, 1964

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Cotton farmer in Sudan, 1961

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Four worshippers of Vishnu in a city street, India, 1926

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Sir Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists after getting nailed in the head with a brick (sadly, he would live), Liverpool, UK, 1937

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Algerian cavalryman showing off for an audience in Groningen, the Netherlands, 1961

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Reindeer herder (and reindeer), Mongolia, ~1920

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Women's swimming competition in Finland, 1919

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Two street vendors selling honeycakes, Mumbai, India, 1926

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Song festival in Riga, Latvia, 1938

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French troops in a trench at Verdun, WW1, 1916

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A Happy Easter, fellow history enthusiasts! A snowy Easter at a farm outside Bergen, Norway, 1902

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Anglo-Egyptian cavalryman and mount (camel), 1900-1920

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Self-portrait of Russian writer Leonid Andreyev, 1910 AD

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Famous writer Ernest Hemingway with a Thompson Submachinegun, 1935

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"Penny Auction" at a farm, with a noose as a warning to bank agents who might attempt to bid, Michigan, USA, Great Depression, 1936

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Bathing hour at the beach, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, 1904

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Irish Traveller Family, Killorglin, Ireland, 1954.

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Technical school students near a roadside chapel during an outing, Slovenia, 1920

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Sailors dancing on a fake battleship built for recruiting/fundraising purposes in New York City, USA, WW1, 1917

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Law students in Indonesia, 1928

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East Berliners welcomed by a West Berlin crowd after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany, 1989

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Kalinin Avenue. Moscow, Soviet Union, 1977

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Orchard crew in the Pacific Northwest, USA or Canada, early 1900s

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Sharing a smoke, 1954

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Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer on the subway, New York City, USA, 1962

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Ivan Suvorov, an Unangax/Aleut hunter, wearing a gut parka and carrying a large harpoon in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA, 1909

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Hanoi residents in sidewalk bunkers after an American bombing raid, North Vietnam, 1967

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Demonstrating the precision of a mechanical device for handling nuclear material by shaving a colleague, UK, 1959

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Indigenous Mayan smoking a traditional cigar, Mexico, 1958

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Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury at the age of 4, Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1950

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Mistletoe vendors in Paris, France, ~1928

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Australian troops escorting the body of the Imperial German ace pilot Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron", for a full military funeral, with an English priest leading, France, WW1, 1918

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Two men in pedal-boats, Sweden, ~1930

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Two archeologists having a lunch break in Nälsta, Sweden, 1930

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Church being used for grain storage, the Soviet Union,, 1930

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Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali, Las Vegas, USA, 1973

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Surface of the moon photographed during the Apollo 11 mission, 1969

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Officials of Carnaval, Tenejapa, Chiapas, Mexico, 1961

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Processing salted fish, Iceland, ~1910-1920

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Car of the Shah of Iran (and his personal mechanic?), 1902

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Chinese farm laborers in Peru, ~1900

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Cheech and Chong playing basketball, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 1972

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Breakfast tea being passed between train cars, Pakistan, 1983

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Children being reunited with their parents after the end of air raid evacuations, London, UK, end of WW2, 1945

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Passengers boarding an airship, Cardington, UK, 1936

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Procrastinators' Club showing up late to protest the War of 1812, Philadelphia, USA, 1966

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Wounded French soldiers in the Grand Palais practicing military drill to return to active duty, WW1, 1916

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Partisan (presumably anti-Shah) on the streets of Tehran during the Iranian Revolution, 1979

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Shepherd with his kids in Azerbaijan, 1980s?

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Locksmith in Seoul, South Korea, 1956

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Film of Hiram Maxim firing his Maxim Gun, 1897 AD

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Fidel Castro holding a newspaper detailing a (failed) plot to kill him, New York City, USA, 1959

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First female trainees of the LAPD at target practice, USA, 1948

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Young boy raising a hammer during a solidarity rally for a coal miners' strike in Zonguldak, Turkiye, 1990

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Finnish troops with a Maxim machine gun during the Winter War against Soviet invasion, 1939-1940

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A man and his bicycle, Hungary, 1930

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De Havilland Mk2 Aircraft, UK, 1911

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Dog rearing piglets in Angelsey, Wales, the UK, 1960

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Dog rearing piglets in Angelsey, Wales, the UK, 1960

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Train overshoots the turntable, USA, 1890s

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"An African Princess Arrives For School", photograph by Eve Arnold; London, UK, 1964

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Civil Rights demonstrator being arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, 1963

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Public health inspector measuring alleyway width for safety, Liverpool, UK, 1907

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Member of the Women's Forestry Corps, UK, WW1, between 1915-1918

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Teachers' Union in Bulgaria, 1922

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Photochrom of a lively day at the beach at Ostend, Belgium, ~1895

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British soldiers after the punitive raid on Benin City, Nigeria, 1897

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Empanada vendor in Tucumán, Argentina, ~1890

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Brass smith showing his work in Jaipur, India, 1929

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Inuit woman and three children (plus dog) in winter, Nunavut, Canada, 1956

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Inuit woman and three children (plus dog) in winter, Nunavut, Canada, 1956

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Two men on a boat on the Awash River, Ethiopia, 1956

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Cabbage harvest in China, 1920s

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Partisan leader Fatma Seher Erden and some of her companions, Turkish War of Independence, between 1919-1922

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Women working at a factory for prosthetic limbs, Italy, WW1, presumably between 1915-1918

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Autochrome of women in traditional dress, Baden, Germany

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Autochrome of the Amber Room of the Catherine Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1917

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Spaghetti eating contest (with chopsticks), London, UK, 1958

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View of the rear propeller of an experimental train, Weimar Germany, 1931

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African medical students in Quedlinburg, East Germany, 1963

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Bicycle polo between Germany and Ireland at the London Olympics, UK, 1908

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Subway riders without newspapers after a strike by newspaper workers, New York City, USA, 1953

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Irish civilians being detained by British troops on Bloody Sunday, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK, 1972

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Mosque in Accra, Ghana, 1966

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Mr. Obuobisa, head of the Museum And Monuments Board, in traditional dress; Elmina, Ghana, 1966

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Khevsur warriors in traditional armor, Georgia, ~1910?

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French tanks running obstacle courses in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1920s

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Graphite mine in French-occupied Vietnam, 1929

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2nd Indian Cavalry Division, France, WW1, 1916

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Scene in Le Monocle, a lesbian nightclub in Paris, France, 1932

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View of El Jem, Tunisia, 1960s

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Professional racecar driver Ayrton Senna, at the age of 3 (not yet professional), Brazil, ~1963

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