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Benito Mussolini Fences with a Fascist Militia Officer in Rome 

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Louvre Museum. The Grande Galerie abandoned during World War II. 1940s

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The first presidential turkey pardon performed by US President Harry Truman, 1947

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St. Louis's Hill neighborhood celebrating V-J day. The end of World War II. August 14, 1945. The Hill is an Italian working-class suburb in the southern part of the city.

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Paddington Station, London, in 1926-1927. The train shed was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and was the first of its kind

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Chairman's Mao Zedong's last public appearance on May 27, 1976, meeting Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. His head resting against the back of the chair, possibly caused by Lou Gehrig's disease, showed the world that Mao wouldn't be alive much

longer

 

RIP

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Luftwaffe Uniform Reference Material - Unknown Year of WWII

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African French Soldiers (Tirailleurs Sénégalais) during WWI 

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Nov 24 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald winces from a gun shot fired by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas police HQ. For the record, i dont think Oswald acted alone

 

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Large Anti-Hitler demonstration at the Berlin Sportpalast on December 2, 1931, organised by the Republican Reichsbanner, an organization whose goal was to defend parliamentary democracy against internal subversion and extremism from the left and right

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Women work on a bomber at Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California. The woman at the right wears her hair in “victory rolls.” 

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Aerial photograph San Francisco after the earthquake in 1906 - Kite photography by George R. Lawrence 

 

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The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols on April 19, 1995. 168 people were killed, including 99 federal workers and 19 children, most of them in the building's day-care center.

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3 year old, JFK Jr saluting his father's casket. Jackie Kennedy is beside Robert Kennedy and his daughter, Caroline Kennedy

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Prime Minister Winston Churchill lunching on the east bank of the Rhine with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke. ca. 1944

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Burial and grave of writer Robert Louis Stevenson on Mt Vaea in Samoa, by Thomas Andrew, 1894

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Soda Jerk, Chorpus Christi, Texas

 

What a jerk

 

 

get it

 

ha

 

im funny

 

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Carmine Galante and Leonardo Coppolla after a 1979 rubout in the backyard of a Brooklyn restaurant, by members of the Bonanno crime family Frank Castoral climbed a roof to get this shot

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A Pope mobile at the Motor cycle races in Laurel, Maryland

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Ice harvesting at Kissena Lake, New York. 1890. 

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Propaganda "surrender" leaflets dropped by the Japanese to the Allies during WWII- 1942

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Cousins Tsar Nicholas II and King George V in their last photo together in 1916 

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Last photo of Nikola Tesla. 1943

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Benito Mussolini Fences with a Fascist Militia Officer in Rome 

 

 

 

Paddington Station, London, in 1926-1927. The train shed was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and was the first of its kind

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My wife really got a kick out of this picture and the station looks quite a bit different now. She misses visiting and living in England.

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"Wake Atoll. View of Peale Island, Wake, taken on 25 May 1941. Seven Navy PBY Patrol planes are anchored in the lagoon, and a Pan American Airways Boeing “Clipper” is docked at the pier. The Pan American compound is at the foot of the pier. National Archives photograph, 80-G-451194."

 

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Culturally significant.

 

The stuffed animals depicted are the actual Harrods toys purchased for Christopher Milne in the early 1920's (the bear on August 21, 1921, the rest between 1920 and 1928). Attempts by historians and collectors to identify the original designers of these toys have not been successful (e.g. Martin, K. (2010). Farnell teddy bears. Barnsley, England: Remember When/Pen & Sword.).

 

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Culturally significant.

 

The stuffed animals depicted are the actual Harrods toys purchased for Christopher Milne in the early 1920's (the bear on August 21, 1921, the rest between 1920 and 1928). Attempts by historians and collectors to identify the original designers of these toys have not been successful (e.g. Martin, K. (2010). Farnell teddy bears. Barnsley, England: Remember When/Pen & Sword.).

 

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On the one hand, it is neat that the toys which were the inspiration for a very good series of books and children's cartoons which have entertained hundreds of millions are still around.

 

On the other hand, the life of the real Christopher Robin Milne was a very sad one, which make those toys seem rather grubby and shoddy.

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