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Hwang Jang-yop and his aide Kim Duk-hong saluting after arriving at Seoul International Airport. As the co-creator of Juche Ideology, Hwang was the highest ranking North Korean official to have defected to the South. 1997. .
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Nowy Świat Street in Warsaw, Poland at night in 1935. Photo by Henryk Poddębski.
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Mao's designated successor during the Cultural Revolution, Field Marshal of the People's Republic of China Lin Biao reads the little red book, taken on June 9, 1971 by Mao's wife and Gang of Four leader Jiang Qing herself. Lin would die from a plane crash less than 4 months later.
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An Egyptian Coptic Christian woman in black robes and wearing a habarah veil poses for a picture, circa 1918.
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Last known photo of the Barbary (Atlas) lion by Marcelin Flandrin in the Atlas Mountains, 1925.
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Emperor Hirohito greets citizens during a tour of Yokohama, Japan, February 1946
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Canadian actor Donald Sutherland posing with his Czechoslovak Jawa 250. 1974. Jawa 250 was exported to more than 120 countries around the world, even Dalai Lama was driving one of those. Jawa 250 is one of the oldest motorcycle seies in the world and is still in produce since 1935.
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The laying in state of the Reich President Field Marshal von Hindenburg in the Tannenberg/Grunwald National Monument (1934)
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H/Captain Robert Seaborn, chaplain of the 1st Battalion, The Canadian Scottish Regiment giving absolution to a fallen soldier of the 3rd Canadian Division near Caen, Normandy, 15th July 1944
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