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Wake of INLA member Patsy O'Hara, who died on hunger strike after 61 days. May, 1981

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Spanish Egyptologist Eduardo Toda y Güell, who discovered and opened the intact tomb of Sennedjem standing next to the ancient Egyptian mummies in the Bulak Museum. Filmed in 1885.

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A German and a Soviet officer shaking hands at the end of the Invasion of Poland, October 1939, 2000x1496

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Korean traditional shaman (or mudang) calling out spirits of the dead at a beach. Pohang, 1981.

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Members of the "Naftali Botwin" company raising their flag (between 1937-1939). This was a Jewish company of volunteers for the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. The flag is emblazoned with the words "For your freedom and ours" in Yiddish and Polish.

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Mongolian men selling hawks in Beijing. China, around 1900

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Enver Pasha tries the new Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol for the first time, 1912

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Family members arrive at the New York City morgue to identify the bodies of victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire that killed 146 factory workers, mainly young immigrant women. 1911

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Aftermath of 1997 Central European Flood in Kłodzko, Poland. July, 1997.

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On this day 70 years ago, Marilyn Monroe stood over the subway grate (1954)

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Posessions of a captured North Korean spy confistigated by South Korean police, photographed by the press. Seoul, 1969.

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A teacher teaching Hebrew to a class of Ethiopian Jews, 1979.

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Wake of INLA member Patsy O'Hara, who died on hunger strike after 61 days. May, 1981

Spanish Egyptologist Eduardo Toda y Güell, who discovered and opened the intact tomb of Sennedjem standing next to the ancient Egyptian mummies in the Bulak Museum. Filmed in 1885.

A German and a Soviet officer shaking hands at the end of the Invasion of Poland, October 1939, 2000x1496

Korean traditional shaman (or mudang) calling out spirits of the dead at a beach. Pohang, 1981.

Members of the "Naftali Botwin" company raising their flag (between 1937-1939). This was a Jewish company of volunteers for the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. The flag is emblazoned with the words "For your freedom and ours" in Yiddish and Polish.

Mongolian men selling hawks in Beijing. China, around 1900

Enver Pasha tries the new Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol for the first time, 1912

Family members arrive at the New York City morgue to identify the bodies of victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire that killed 146 factory workers, mainly young immigrant women. 1911

Aftermath of 1997 Central European Flood in Kłodzko, Poland. July, 1997.

On this day 70 years ago, Marilyn Monroe stood over the subway grate (1954)

Posessions of a captured North Korean spy confistigated by South Korean police, photographed by the press. Seoul, 1969.

A teacher teaching Hebrew to a class of Ethiopian Jews, 1979.