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A woman and her Harley Davidson, 1925.

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Portrait of Emma Welch on her front porch in Cumberland Gap, Claiborne County, TN, 1941

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Trofim Lysenko, the president of the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, measuring the growth of wheat on one of the kolkhoz fields near Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, 1930s. Lysenko is famous for "proving" that nature is communist and for his agricultural policies that led to famine.

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Demonstrators in Tehran's Esfand Square carrying away an injured man during protests, December 27th 1978.

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Chinese tanks from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) - driving past a pile of bodies and bicycles, following the Tiananmen Square Massacre - Beijing, People’s Republic of China, June 4th, 1989.

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A Victorian Home Being Moved By Boat In Tiburon, California, In 1957

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Chinese singer Peng Liyuan, wife of current President of China Xi Jinping, singing for martial law troops in Beijing in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre - 1989

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King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy with his children, 1909

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Alexander Graham Bell (top right) at the Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf, 1871. Before he became the most important inventor of the telephone, Bell taught deaf children to speak. Despite this, Bell was also a supporter of eugenics.

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French actress, producer and model, Catherine Deneuve - sitting in a park in Paris, France - photo by Jeanloup Sieff, c. 1997.

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A worker inspects a camera lens at the Nikon factory in Tokyo. Japan, 1952

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Houses destroyed after the German bombing of North Strand area, Dublin on the night of 31 May 1941. During the Blitz campaign, the Luftwaffe mistakenly bombed neutral Ireland eight times. The incident on May 31 resulted in 28 victims.

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