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Marilyn Monroe in line to buy a hot dog, NYC,1957.

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Bryant Bowles holds his daughter at a pro-segregation protest. Bowles, the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, said his daughter would "never attend a school with Negroes as long as there is breath in my body and gunpowder will burn", Delaware, 1954 .

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Fanny Kaplan. She was an Ukrainian Jewish woman, Socialist-Revolutionary, and early Soviet dissident. She was arrested for the attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin on 30 August 1918 and was executed by the Cheka few days later (Moscow, Russia 1918)

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A picture of Osama Bin Laden in The Independent Newspaper. This publication was released on 6th December 1993, in the United Kingdom.

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A bomb explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel, after an unsuccessful attempt to disarm it. Several men masquerading as photocopier deliverers had planted a bomb containing 1000 lb/450 kg of dynamite at the hotel, with the goal of extorting money from the hotel casino (Stateline, Nevada 1980)

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The Dead Body of Italian Prime Minister and Fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini (second from left) next to his Mistress Claretta Petacci and other Executed Fascists on display in Piazzale Loreto - Milan, Italy - 1945

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Winston Churchill meets Dwight Eisenhower at the Bermuda Conference, 1953

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Cindy Crawford posing with Israeli soldiers in 1992

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Kaiser Wilhelm II with his close friend and advisor, Philipp zu Eulenburg, in 1890

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The O'Halloran girls of Bodyke, Co. Clare, Ireland, circa 1888-1890.

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Students Dance In Tiananmen Square Before The Arrival Of The Chinese Military, June 4th 1989 (1200x900)

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington on 28 August 1963.

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