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“I am going to die a good Catholic and a soldier of the Irish Republic. Lord Jesus give me courage in my last moments. If I had only got told of my sentence, I would have been well prepared before now. Oh mother if I could only see you.” James Fisher(18). First of 81 executions Nov.17,1922 (217x338)
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Two peasants from the region around Rome. A daguerreotype by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842.
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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein & Saudi Arabian King Fahd examining a gold-plated rifle Fahd gave Saddam as a gift, early 1980's. At the time the Sunni House of Saud was backing Saddam in his war against Shia-dominated Iran. (1200x800)
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“Amateurs talk tactics, professionals study logistics”-General Omar Bradley. Omaha beach, June 9th, 1944
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Actor Kyle MacLachlan gets a piggyback ride from “Dune” author, Frank Herbert. 1984
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Japanese destroyer Kikuzuki beached on Nggela Sule, Solomon Islands, circa 1944
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A cigarette break - from the left, Richard Baer (commandant of the Auschwitz camp from May 1944), Josef Mengele (camp "doctor"), in front Josef Kramer (commandant of Birkenau) and Rudolf Höss (former commandant of Auschwitz). 1944
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24 Year-Old Orson Welles outside CBS's Columbia Square studios at 6121 Sunset Boulevard on his first day in Hollywood, August 1939
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