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Three of the seven linked forts in the Thames Estuary which guarded British shipping lanes against mines and mine laying aeroplanes, 29th September 1945.

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Dutch Nazi movement members and shaven "Moffenmeids" (women who had relationships with German occupiers) being publicly shamed after the liberation of The Netherlands, 1945.

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Grandma in Central Park 1940s

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Tourism With A Conscience (International Herald Tribune, 2008)

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

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Tilda Swinton - 1986

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A businessman watches Ed Sullivan from a hotel room in San Francisco, December 1958.

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US President Abraham Lincoln seated at his second inauguration ceremony next to former & incoming vice-Presidents Hannibal Hamlin & Andrew Johnson, 1865. (2048x1702)

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Preston Porter Jr., 15, reads a Bible for comfort as he is led by rope to be burned at the stake by a lynch mob. After being tortured for 4 days, he'd confessed to killing a white girl after the police said his father and brother would also be lynched unless he talked (Colorado, 1900) .

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Christmas Morning 1969 with my my little sis. Taken by my dad with his new Polaroid.

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Michael Dukakis runs over Joe Biden by Doug Marlette, 1987

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Soviet Mi-8 Flying Past the Bamiyan Buddha, Afghanistan 1980

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