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The 1980s, when you went to the games instead of the games coming to you.

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U.S. Army engineers clearing the road in Montebourg, France. 23 June, 1944

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Coca-Cola being delivered in Tennessee, 1909

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DSV Alvin carries Dr. Robert Ballard and two pilots to the wreck of RMS Titanic, July 1986

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The Vichy French battleship Jean Bart which was bombed by the US at Casablanca, 16 November 1942.

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Martin Luther King holds a picture of three missing civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman during a press conference. The activists were abducted and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan, in what is known as the Mississippi Burning murders (Mississippi 1964)

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Franz Reichelt, a French tailor and inventor who was an early pioneer of parachuting. In 1910-1912 he developed a wearable suit for pilots that would expand into a parachute should they need to eject themselves from their aircraft. The test jump from the Eiffel Tower ended tragically. (800x800)

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Bathysphere: The World’s First Deep-Sea Exploration Vessel, 1930s. It was created by American naturalist William Beebe, pictured inside the vessel, and engineer Otis Barton.

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2 boys (vaccinated earlier and unvaccinated) during pox epidemy in London, beginning of 1900s

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Young woman preparing for sentry duty. Haifa, Israel 1951.

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American soldiers looking down at Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre. 1968 (2000×2588)

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U.S. Capitol building from the Washington Monument. 1908.

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