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A twelve-year-old Bill Cliton with his tenor saxophone. 1958/1959.

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The Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Osman Ali Khan pays homage to the Emperor and Empress (George V and Queen Mary) at the Delhi Durbar, December 1911.

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Apollo 10 commander Tom Stafford pats the nose of a giant stuffed Snoopy prior to launch, 1969.

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A huge herd of elephants in Tsavo East National Park in Kenya in 1976. It was one of the last herds of this size observed. From the beginning of the 20th cen. to the 1970s, the elephant population decreased 7.5 times and amounted to approximately 1.3 million. Currently it's around 400000.

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Oklahoma farmers comparing yields of fertilized vs unfertilized corn, 1932

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Jewish woman chased by men and youth armed with clubs during the Lviv pogroms, 1941, Ukraine

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Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, former Prime Minister of South Vietnam, working at a liquor store in Los Angeles, after settling in the United States following the fall of South Vietnam - 1977

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A muddied Combat Engineer of the United States Fifth Army enjoys a cup of coffee and a doughnut supplied by the Red Cross in Italy, 1944.

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DJS-11, also known as Device 150, China's first supercomputer (for the time) capable of exceeding 1 megaFLOP, completed 1972 by Peking University.

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The raising of the Confederate Okinawa Flag, May 29, 1945, Colorized

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Wenceslao "El Fusilado" Moguel, left disfigured after surviving a firing squad execution, sharing a moment with Robert L. Ripley on the set of Ripley's Believe It or Not! radio show, 1937

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A kendo class for boys. Japan, 1929

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