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John F. Kennedy campaigning door to door ,1960
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U.S. President Andrew Jackson, aged 78, in a daguerreotype taken of him in 1845 (1040 x 1303)
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President Raúl Alfonsín (in pale suit) visits the site, where an MTP member lies after being killed by the Army. La Tablada, Argentina, 1989.
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Firefighters at the Crystal Palace fire. Although 89 fire engines and over 400 firemen arrived, they were unable to extinguish it. Within hours, the Palace was destroyed. The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 (London, UK 1936)
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British suffragette under arrest after participating in an attack on Buckingham Palace, London, in 1914
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Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders to save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they came when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Grüninger was fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension, 1930s .
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Physical training on the quarterdeck of the cruiser HMS Argonaut, Algeria, December 14-19, 1942.
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