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Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.

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A panoramic view of the Hollywood Hills, showing the original real estate adverting signage, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1926.

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Reserve 6th Company of the Infantry Regiment No.55. German Empire, 1899.

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Coal miner’s child in grade school. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946.

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USAAF Boeing B-17 Crewmen wearing RAF goggles with sun visors pose with their high altitude gear at Polebrook, 1942

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Two bald eagles rescued from Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. 1989

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"We demand bread"- beginning of 1956 Poznań protests, the first of several massive protests against the communist government in Poland. Around 100,000 people took to the streets to demand better working conditions. The army was called in and 57 people were killed. Poznań, 28 June 1956.

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Cashiers At The Piggly Wiggly Continental, Encino, California, 1962.

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A barber at the Hotel de Gink, a hotel for "hobos" and itinerant workers located at Centre and Worth Streets, the Bowery, New York City. 1910-1915

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A Kawasaki Ki-61 makes its final dive for the USS Sangamon, it would miss the deck and only take out a few antennas. Half an hour later a Ki-45 would slam into her deck killing 11. 4th May 1945

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A group of Boer commandos in the 2nd Boer War. Seated are Jan Smuts and Manie Maritz. After the war, Smuts moved on and slowly softened his racist views. Maritz doubled-down on them, led a white supremacist uprising in 1914, and later became an ardent supporter of Nazism, 1901 .

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Grand Central Station - New York (1941) (758x582)

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A samurai with longbow, from Satsuma Domain. Japan, 1860

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