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Attorneys watch Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certify the Florida vote on a TV screen. Harris announced Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush had won 2,912,790 votes to Democratic presidential rival Al Gore's 2,912,253 votes (West Palm Beach, Florida 2000)

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A crowd of spectators watch as the heavy cruiser HMS York is launched, 1928.

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A young flapper posing by a Ford Model T, 1920s

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A photo from the set of the movie "Ben Hur", 1959.

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U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance Returns the Crown Jewels to Communist Hungary, in 1978

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15-year-old Hans-Georg Henke breaks down from combat shock, World War Two, 1945.

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Prince Charles watching the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. Stood beside him are Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Princess Margaret (980x728)

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A British soldier inside a trench on the Western Front during World War I, 1914–18

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Photo taken in a Sears department store on November 22, 1963

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A 1200 pound Leatherback Sea Turtle that was accidently caught in a fishing net in the Sunshine Coast area of British Columbia, Canada. Circa 1930.

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Women’s marching in support of the Islamic Revolution led by the Ayatollah Khomeini, 1979, Tehran, Iran.

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Scene from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York City, 1930s

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