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A bakery in Leningrad USSR in the 1950s
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The last photo ever taken of US general & statesman Sam Houston, who served as president, senator, & governor of Texas, 1863. He defeated general Santa Anna in just 18 minutes at the battle of San Jacinto & is the only person in US history to have served as governor of two different states (725x558)
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Malta V West Germany in 1979. The pitch in Maltas Empire stadium was entirely made of concrete. (584x481)
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Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (middle) in disguise with his hair and beard shaved while working with Bolivian revolutionaries, 1960's. (2000x1784)
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Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin toasting British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's birthday in Tehran, Iran, 1943. Future Prime Minister Anthony Eden can be seen next to Churchill. (2048x1529)
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Commander Peter MacRitchie (HCMS) meets with liberated Canadian POWs at the Shamshuipo Prisoner Camp in Kowlon, Hong Kong, circa September 1945. Prior to liberation, the camp had been hit by significant diphtheria and beriberi outbreaks leading to the death of many prisoners.
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A Soviet tank faces the badly damaged Reichstag building in Berlin where the last desperate pocket of German resistance was finally crushed, May 1945.
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Željko "Arkan" Ražnatović Signs Autographs for a Group of Fans (Belgrade, Serbia, 1994)
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The Iranian singer and actress Faegheh Atashin (Googoosh) during one of her performances on stage - Tehran, Imperial State of Iran, c. 1975.
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London sanitation engineers overseeing new sewer construction following the Great Stink of 1858
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