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People riding on a Victorian rollercoaster around 1900. (640×445)
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French General Henri Dumesnil toasts Charles Sweeny, an American mercenary, before his departure to Morocco to fight in the Rif War. Sweeny was the leader of a 17-man squadron of Americans who bombed Moroccan villages and cities for the "cause of the white man's civilization", 1925 .
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In june 1980 during the military dicatorship in Chile artist Alfredo Jaar asked the Chileans a simple question: "Es usted feliz?" (Are you happy?)
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Helen D. Longstreet, widow of CSA General James Longstreet (later a U.S. Ambassador), attends the 1938 Gettysburg reunion.
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Mao Zedong meeting with Puyi, the last emperor of China and the leader of the former Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo - 1961
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Ronald Reagan campaigning for Richard Nixon. The two also shared a campaign consultant in Arthur J Finkelstein. 2 February 1972
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Sikhs protecting the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem. Ottoman Empire, c. 1900.
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