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Mikhail Gorbachev checks his watch before a televised address announcing his resignation. On 25 Dec 1991, he resigned as president of the USSR, as he put it, 'I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' (Moscow, Russia 1991)

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Flooding in Paris, 1924.

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Members of 163 Battery, Royal New Zealand Artillery enjoy Christmas dinner in Korea. December 1951.

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Frederick Lamar McGhee, the first black attorney in Minnesota and one of the founders of the Niagara Movement, circa 1890

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"Sippers and Topers", England 1900, by Benjamin Stone.

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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat meeting with Israeli foreign minister Moshe Dayan at the King David Hotel, 1977. Despite their discussion of ending the longtime conflict between the 2 nations, Sadat's choice of neckwear has been the subject of some controversy in the years since the meeting (822x537)

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Teenagers at a party in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1947, 4th Most Popular Colorized Photos of 2023

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Operators from the Rhodesian (SAS) Special Air Service, equipped with Soviet RPD machine guns, in the bushland of neighboring Mozambique, during Operation Uric, c. September 1st - 8th, 1979.

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Parents taking their baby ice skating, 1930s. (640×806)

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Donald Trump photographed playing tennis at Mar-A-Lago while wearing an all-white outfit, February 13, 2000.

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Queen Victoria, the Grandmother of Europe, 1894.

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Lyndon B Johnson yelling at the pilots of a nearby plane to cut their engines so John F Kennedy could speak. JFK is seen trying to calm him down. Taken during the presidential campaign of 1960. .

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