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FBI Director J Edgar Hoover fishing with his longtime deputy and best friend, Clyde Tolson, 1930's. The relationship between the two men, who spent most of their professional & private time together, was unusually close, and sparked rumors of an extended homosexual romance for decades. (1000x750)
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A Lebanese resident of Berlin drags an 85lb cross toward the Brandenburg Gate to protest the building of the Berlin Wall. October 1961. East German border Guards denied him entry. (1000 x 700.)
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"Long live England!" Demonstration in support of British declaration of war on Nazi Germany. Warsaw, Poland, September 3, 1939.
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1969 mugshot of bank robber, con man & career criminal Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, who remained on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list for 8 years from 1969 to 1977. He was the father of Las Vegas mass-murderer Stephen Paddock (1267x712)
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IRA members Patrick Moran and Thomas Whelan shaking hands in prison the day before they are to be executed for assassinating British Spies. March, 1921
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The crew of Apollo 1 pray for the structural integrity of their command module in a parody of their official crew photo. The trio would die locked inside the module in a launchpad fire a few months later. August 19, 1966.
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Official photograph of RAF celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Britain 1960.
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Javier Torres (Spain) sets off at the start of the 200m freestyle heats at the Paralympic Games. Torres, whose limbs have been amputated, went on to come sixth in the 200m finals (Athens, Greece 2004)
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Polish runner Ewa Kłobukowska was the first Olympian to have her achievements stripped for failing a gender test in 1967, although the test conducted in the USSR stirred controversy. Photo December 1964
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79 years ago today, September 2, 1945, Japan's surrender delegation boards the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to end World War II.
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