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Photo of Siah Khan, a Persian man known for his height and unusual body. He stood 8 ft 6 in, he also suffered from "physical and mental retardation" and proteus syndrome. (c. mid 1930s)
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High School teenagers riding around in a jalopy in Des Moines, Iowa, 1947.
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Group photograph of 22 out of the over 100 sons of Iranian field marshal Bahman Mirza Qajar, taken while he was residing in Karabakh, Russian Empire ruled-Azerbaijan, 1869. Translation in comments.
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A Cat Named Buffins, Photographed After Winning The Award For "Most Attractive Expression" At A National Cat Club Contest, In Washington, 1958 (700x857)
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Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann listening as an Israeli court declares him guilty on all counts at his war crimes trial in Jerusalem, 1961
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A Serbian cavalry lieutenant from 1875, shortly before the Serbian-Turkish Wars (1876-78)
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Hauptmann Eduard Altacher, 6th Mountain Division an Austrian recipient of the Iron Cross, He was executed by a drunken Floyd Craver of I Co, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, the same private who shot dead Major Martin Watkins, and wounded Sgt Charles Grant E, 506, in Austria in May 1945
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May Day demonstration in 1986 in Kiev (Ukraine, USSR) just a few days after the disaster at Chernobyl, 1986 .
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