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Only one of two photographs in existence of the US Supreme Court in session. Cameras are forbidden in the Supreme Court, but this photograph was taken by a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, 1937.

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Chairman Mao Zedong signs U.S. civil rights leader Robert F. Williams’ copy of the ‘Little Red Book’ at the National Day celebrations, October 1, 1966.

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Young girl murdered in Miropol, Ukraine. October 13th 1941. 250 Jews were killed in the municipal park by Nazis and Ukrainian collaborators.

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Queen Elena of Italy with her children, 1918

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German SS guards, exhausted from their forced labour clearing the bodies of the dead at Bergen-Belsen, are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves, 1945

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Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC founder Colonel Sanders lays in state at Southern Seminary's Alumni Memorial Chapel in Louisville, Kentucky. Sanders was buried in his signature white suit and black western string tie. An estimated 1,000 mourners attended his funeral. December 20, 1980.

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Libyan College Student ,Sadiq Hamed Shwehdi, Begs and Pleads the Libyan Court For His Life After Being Accused in Participating in Protests Against Gaddafi. Minutes Later He Would Be Hung In the Very Same Basketball Court in A Botched Execution Broadcasted on National TV. Libya, 1984

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Police in Dili, East Timor, assault a civilian who had urged them to intervene to stop a violent confrontation between a government-backed militia and pro-independence supporters, August 26, 1999. Immediately after this photo was taken by J. Stanmeyer, the officers shot and killed the man.

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The landscape after the Allies captured Omaha Beach in Normandy. Some time after June 6, 1944.

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Queen Victora on her deathbed. Late Janurary 1901.

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Walt Disney introduces each of the seven dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer.

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U.S. Navy airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) flying over the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. September 22, 1923

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