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A very unsuccessful prototype of a new British weapon known as the panjandrum. 1940s

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Mrs. Faro Caudill packing up kitchen equipment for moving to new dugout nearer the well. Notice the pressure cooker. These homesteaders say that the pressure cooker should be put on the national flag for they think it's saving the farm folks for America. Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940. (855×750)

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Duma, 1990. Member of Parliament, V. A. Marychev, discusses legal regulations during a parliamentary session.

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American civil rights & community activist Ann Atwater with former KKK member and segregationist (turned civil rights activist & trade union organiser) C. P. Ellis. Following a 10-day integration forum & mutual enmity, Atwater & Ellis formed a lifelong friendship and partnership, 1971.

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1925 photo of Adolf Josef Langz, Austrian monk and occult white supremacist who was one of the earliest figures in the history of Aryan fascism. He founded the first white supremacist group to use the Swastika as a symbol and eventually described Hitler as being of "inferior racial stock." (620x620)

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The Statue of Liberty photographed in Paris just before it was disassembled and shipped to New York, 1884. (1080x1328)

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Fidel Castro and his men during the Cuban Revolution, 2nd of December 1956

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A New York iron worker walks along a girder high above the city streets 1950.

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Tricycle Gang in Brooklyn, New York City, 1930s. (1079×792)

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View of the opposing German and Soviet Pavilions at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris. In four years, the two powers would find themselves embroiled in the deadliest war in history.

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Russian woman, with the background of the burnt out Parliament building, and a BTR APC - Moscow, Russia – aftermath of the constitutional crisis, c. October 1993.

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A photograph of unidentified My Lai Massacre victims moments before being killed by American GIs. Taken by Ronald L. Haeberle on the 16th March 1968.

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