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This is an 1892 Photo of a Hot Potato Vendor on the streets of Manhattan. These Potatoes were also known as "Mickeys" and besides providing a quick snack, they were often carried in pockets and used as hand warmers on cold Winter days. (671×895)

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A refugee carrying his cholera-stricken wife away from the fighting during the Bangladesh War, 1971.

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Egyptian soldiers look at Achille Lauro in Port Said, after being hi jacked by Palestinians for two days. The incident resulted in one death, Jewish American Leon Klinghoffer, who was shot and tossed overboard in his wheelchair. October 1985

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Knife sharpener in London 1950s.

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A Soviet tank crashes into a building in Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 1968.

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Katharine Hepburn skateboarding, c. 1960s, Beverly Hills. Photo by her nephew Jack Grant.

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Juvenile convicts at work in the fields in chain gang. Southern jails made money leasing convicts for labor in the Jim Crow South. Circa. 1903

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Archaeologists dine in the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses XI, 1923

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Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Al St. John, 1918. Once his deadpan persona became established, Keaton avoided smiling in front of a camera.

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A Chinese tin worker carrying ingots at a British smelting plant in Malaya, 1941 .

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Community barber shop in Kern County, California, 1936. (761×1225)

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The German Paris Gun, also known as the Kaiser Wilhelm Gun, was the largest gun of World War I. In 1918 the Paris Gun shelled Paris from 120 km (75 mi) away.

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This is an 1892 Photo of a Hot Potato Vendor on the streets of Manhattan. These Potatoes were also known as "Mickeys" and besides providing a quick snack, they were often carried in pockets and used as hand warmers on cold Winter days. (671×895)

A refugee carrying his cholera-stricken wife away from the fighting during the Bangladesh War, 1971.

Egyptian soldiers look at Achille Lauro in Port Said, after being hi jacked by Palestinians for two days. The incident resulted in one death, Jewish American Leon Klinghoffer, who was shot and tossed overboard in his wheelchair. October 1985

Knife sharpener in London 1950s.

A Soviet tank crashes into a building in Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 1968.

Katharine Hepburn skateboarding, c. 1960s, Beverly Hills. Photo by her nephew Jack Grant.

Juvenile convicts at work in the fields in chain gang. Southern jails made money leasing convicts for labor in the Jim Crow South. Circa. 1903

Archaeologists dine in the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses XI, 1923

Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Al St. John, 1918. Once his deadpan persona became established, Keaton avoided smiling in front of a camera.

A Chinese tin worker carrying ingots at a British smelting plant in Malaya, 1941 .

Community barber shop in Kern County, California, 1936. (761×1225)

The German Paris Gun, also known as the Kaiser Wilhelm Gun, was the largest gun of World War I. In 1918 the Paris Gun shelled Paris from 120 km (75 mi) away.