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One the few existing photographs of Frederic Chopin, taken in 1849, a few months before his death.
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In segregated Tennessee of the 1950's, the Memphis Zoo allowed only 'colored people' to enter on Thursday of each week. (640x582)
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Czechoslovak President Václav Havel with the British band Rolling Stones, shortly after the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia. It was a symbol of freedom. Around 110,000 people came to their concert in Prague. (18.August 1990)
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Rudolf Höss, the longest serving commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, about to be hanged next to the crematorium of the camp in 1947.
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Fred Rogers being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. The event was held on Fred and Joanne Rogers' 50th Wedding Anniversary on July 9, 2002. (2002)
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Testing prototype space suit intended for use in NASA's Apollo moon landing program, Mojave Desert, California 1962
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The mask alleged to have been worn by sex offender Edward Paisnel aka "The Beast Of Jersey" when he committed a number of sex crimes on Jersey, 25th November 1971.
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