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At 7’3” (221cm) Jakob Nacken was the tallest German soldier in WW2. Pictured here talking with 5’7” (170 cm) Eddie Worth, an AP photographer, after his surrender. 1944
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Man on a pole at World Pole Sitting Championships, Roelofarendsveen, The Netherlands, 9 August 1971
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Julie Shafer, 15, of Michigan eyes the ceremonial uniform of Sgt. Glenn Norman of the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. Queen’s Park, Toronto, Canada, March 1978.
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Dot Robinson (1912 - 1999) was a pioneering woman motorcyclist and co-founder of the American Motorcyclist Association-sanctioned Motor Maids riding club. Photographed in 1941.
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A Vietnamese paratrooper sniper stands in observation and firing position in the Phu Nho Quan area, on the edge of the Red River Delta, during Operation Mouette (Seagull) on October 4, 1953; during the fight for the Viet Bac, on Tonkin, French Indochina.
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An anti-Nazi protest in Chicago in 1978. A small group of neo-Nazis had planned a rally in Skokie, Ill., with the free speech support of the American Civil Liberties Union, but that march never happened.
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Riots in Belfast after the death of Bobby Sands. Bobby Sands died on 5 May 1981 in the Maze prison after 66 days of hunger strike. His death and those of nine other hunger strikers was followed by a new surge of IRA recruitment and activity (Belfast, Northern Ireland 1981)
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Felix Dzerzhinsky, 1912, Krakov. Polish-Russian revolutionary. Subsequently, he founded the Soviet state security organs (KGB).
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Members of the Lakehurst ground crew flee as the Hindenburg crashes behind them, 1937.
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The Ruling Elite of Soviet Ukraine in 1935: All met violent deaths within 4 years
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Sarah Breedlove, Madame C. J. Walker) who was likely the first female millionaire in the US. Starting in 1904 made her money through a beauty empire based on specialist hair products for fellow African-Americans. 1908.
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