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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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Two Ainu women with lip tattoos. Japan, 1890. Photo by Tamoto Kenzō.

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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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The corpse of Pope Pius IX after being exhumed in 1956

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Shelley Duvall- 1970

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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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Migrant farm worker with his wife and ten children, 1936. (1002×767)

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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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Moving day in New York, 1938, colourised

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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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