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A Frenchman trying Coca Cola for the first time , 1950 (750x750)

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Saddam Hussein appears at a birthday party for one of the British hostages he held in Kuwait shortly after his invasion, August 1990.

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Major General Maurice Rose, commander of the 3rd Armored Division, receives the Croix de Guerre and an embrace from a French general in mid-March 1945. Less than three weeks later, Rose, considered among the U.S. Army’s finest armored commanders, would be shot dead. (1024x798)

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Futuristic gas station, USSR, 1980.

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A Christian wedding during the Lebanese Civil War, Beirut, Lebanon, 1986.

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Mourners gather outside the home of Madge Oberholtzer, a white American woman whose rape and murder played a critical role in the demise of the second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan. April 1925. .

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Literal HistoryPorn- Martin B-26 Marauder “Lilly Commando” of the 573rd BS, 391st BG, 9th AF, 1944

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Police photo of Josip Broz Tito, the Yugoslav leader, from 4.5.1928., after he and several other protesters attempted to free an arrested baker from the hands of the gendarmes in Zagreb. (811x1181)

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American people look at the rearranged European borders in 1918 after the First World War (1253x1265)

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White protesters joining the march on Washington D.C. during the civil rights movement, August 1963.

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In 1966 Bobbi Gibb was told she was disqualified from participating in the Boston Marathon because she was female; she crashed the race by hiding in a bush near the starting line and finished with a time of 3:21:40, crushing the glass ceiling for women runners everywhere.

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