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German soldiers and civilians give the Nazi salute as thousands of books smoulder during one of the mass book-burnings implemented throughout the country to destroy non-Aryan publications (Nazi Germany 1933)
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Ben Carlin and Barry Hanley on their amphibious jeep in the port of Hong Kong. Ben Carlin has been the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle. He travelled over 17,000 km by sea and 62,000 km by land during a 10-year journey (Hong Kong 1956)
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In this picture British soldiers are marching towards the Somme in 1916. They run into the unknown, many of them only found death in the end.
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Commander of British land forces Sir Jeremy Moore accepts the surrender of Argentinian General Mario Menéndez in the Falklands, 1982
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Two moonshiners arrested by federal agents near St. Paul, Minnesota, 1921.
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Singer/actor/activist Paul Robeson leads Oakland shipyard workers in The Star Spangled Banner, 1942
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Indigenous people dance at a potlatch hosted by Chief Roy Cranmer of the ʼNamgis First Nation. Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada, 1990.
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Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) during his Royal Tour of Japan in 1922. (1291x2047)
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The Baxwbakwalanuksiwe’ (“man-eater at the north end of the world”) mask and costume of the Kwakwakaʼwakw people, confiscated by the government for violating the potlatch ban. Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada, 1922.
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President Theodore Roosevelt (right, standing on turret) addresses the crew of USS Connecticut, on February 22, 1909, during the final week of his presidency.
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