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Syngman Rhee, Douglas MacArthur and John Reed Hodge celebrating the formation of Korean government. Seoul, 1948.
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Believers of Dami Mission Church awaiting promised rapture, Seoul 1992. The pastor was arrested for fraud. Words on the wall reads : "(Rap) Jesus coming from sky (ture)"
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Zamknięta Street in Gdańsk, Poland (then Free City of Danzig) with besieged Westerplatte Polish Military Transit Depot in flames in the background. Early September, 1939.
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Former Luftwaffe Aces Barkhorn, Hartmann, Steinhoff, and Rall serving as officers of the West German Air Force, circa 1957.
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King Gustaf V of Sweden in the outer courtyard of the royal palace speaking to the peasants march during the courtyard crisis. 6th of February 1914.
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An American gun grew advancing against the Germans during the Meuse–Argonne offensive in 1918 during the First World War
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1940's-50's photo of Spiridon Putin, paternal grandfather of current Russian President Vladimir Putin and personal chef to both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, he also once cooked for Grigori Rasputin (693x494)
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Dr. Sara Josephine Baker in her office, circa 1915. Baker was a pioneering physician and advocate in the areas of public health and in the effects of urban poverty on the health of children. She was also tasked with locating and detaining Typhoid Mary (Mallon) on two separate occasions.
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Old Korean scholar drinking a bottle of coke - the first known photographed record of coca cola in Korea, 1947.
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Hong Kong Police officers change cap badges at the stroke of midnight following the handover of sovereignty to China (1997-07-01)
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