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Year 1947, Bodybuilder Steve Reeves and Fitness promoter Abbye Stockton, toured the US to promote fitness and health in the whole country, here during stop they did in Hawaii.
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My Great Grandad, George Layton (4th from left) of the 1st. Royal Warwicks. Christmas Day 1914, with his new German friends. No Man's Land Northern France (622 X 402) George said he preferred the Saxons to the Prussians, but when they sang Christmas carols together 'they could all hold a good tune'.
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The first concert show of the band under their then new name, Linkin Park - at the Mill Avenue Sport Rock Cafe, in Arizona, c. 2000.
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Presumably one of the first photographs of intersex genitalia. Photograph by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (Nadar), 1860.
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French woman of the French army drinking a bottle of red wine in a devasted German city, 1945
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Hunter with polar bear slain with bow and arrow in Alaska, 1924. Photo by Frank E. Kleinschmidt
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Yugoslavian president Josip Broz "Tito" playing with this pet leopard in 1956. The animal was a gift from Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie. (1129x840)
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HMS Speaker which arrived at the port of Nagasaki to evacuate prisoners of war released from Japanese camps. September-October 1945
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Roter Sand ("red sand") Lighthouse, 24 km north-east of Wangerooge Island, North Sea, Germany. It was built 1880-1885, making it the first building in the world erected directly on the bottom of the sea. (photo ca. 1960)
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Captain Salgueiro Maia, walking towards loyalist soldiers with his arms at his sides in an attempt to persuade them in joining the coup against Portugal's authoritarian regime. 25th April 1974, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Photograph Showing Inventor Charles S.l Baker And His Assistant Demonstrating Heating/Radiator System. 1906
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Chinese peasant confronting his landlord, between 1949-1953 hundreds of thousands of Landlords and rich peasants were systematically massacred by Chinese communists
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