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The group Milli Vanilli gives a thumbs up at the 32nd Grammy Awards. It was given the Grammy for Best New Artist. Later that year, the group would be stripped of their award because they did not sing at all on their album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals (Los Angeles 1990)
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Eldridge Cleaver & David Hilliard of the Black Panther Party holding a press conference w/ the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Algiers, Algeria @ the Pan-African Cultural Festival (1969)
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Bobbie Jean Sergeant, 4, goes with her sister Lucy, 26, who is blind, to get water. P V & K Coal Company, Clover Gap Mine, Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946. (National Archives photo, Russell Lee photographer)
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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at Chazy Lake, New York with a .22 Smith & Wesson she carried when refusing her Secret Service Protection - 1934
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Kaiser Wilhelm II. dressed in the uniform of a British Field Marshal at Marlborough House, London, on occasion of his grandmother Queen Victoria's funeral, 1901
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Paolo Pedrizzetti's famous photo of leftist activist Giuseppe Memeo at the Via De Amicis confrontation in Milan. This photo became an iconic picture of Italy's years of lead. (1977)
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A young spinner in the Century Cotton Mills in South Boston, Virginia. The ten-year-old sister on the right helps with the baby. Photograph by Lewis Hine, June 1911.
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Requisitioning of as many bonshō - ie large bell of Japanese Buddhist Temple - as the Authorities could lay-hands on, to supply metal for armaments manufacture – Japan, probably 1942 or very early 1943.
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King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga and his court jester Jesse Bogdonoff, in practice Jesse, previously working for Bank of America, managed the Tonga Trust Fund and bankrupted it. His appointment as jester was due to his sense of humor and the need to formally belong to gov. b 1999 and 2001
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Samuel James Seymour - last surviving person to witness the assassination of president lincoln on apr. 14, 1865
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Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, over 125,000 citizens of Japanese descent were forcibly evacuated and incarcerated in “Relocation Centers” across the western US. Here, families sit with their baggage at a railroad station in Woodland, Ca. awaiting relocation. May 20, 1942.
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