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What is now the fully developed Las Vegas strip, 1955.

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A local poses for the camera, atop one of the Great Pyramids of Giza. circa 1900.

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The Titanic at the docks of Southampton 10 April. 1912. 2000 x 1257 pixels

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Drag Race Queen Barbara Roufs, 1970s. Colorized. .

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Igor Sikorsky in the uniform of the Russian Empire in 1914, Sikorsky was a famous aircraft designer in Russia before the revolution and his escape to the USA where he founded the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, famous for the first helicopter.

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Soldier stands besides his M60 machine gun, which is mounted on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to deter rioters from entering the building during the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination riots in Washington D.C. (April 1968)

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Cuban women soldiers at the training camp of Punda, near Luanda, Angola, in January 1989. (Photo by Pascal Guyot / AFP)

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Before alarm clocks, people were employed to wake workers up with a long stick. A knocker-up was a profession in England and Ireland that started during and lasted well into the late 1920s.

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A extremely rare image from the 1970s of kim jong il shaking hands with future wife and singer ko Yong hui (also known as hime takada), she would become the mother of kim jong un (4032×3024)

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The last Empress of China, Wanrong, smoking next to her husband the last Emperor of China, Puyi (1930)

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Richard Bradley, dressed as a Union soldier, ripping down the Confederate flag San Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein insisted on in 1984. It was torn down 3 times and replaced 3 times by Feinstein. She had Bradley prosecuted and fined for damages. (1482 x 757) April 15, 1984

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Young french resistant taking a pose with his sten, 1944

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