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Brandenburger Tor, Berlin 1964

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Boulevard du Temple, 1837-1838, first photo taken showing Paris and is also the first photo taken with a human in it, 2 in fact, a man and a shoeshiner shining his shoe

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Soviet T35/85 sits in front of the Brandenburg gate in Berlin, 1945. Note the "bedspring armor"

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Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette, on her motor-scooter in 1916, travelling to work at offices in London where she was a supervisor. The scooter was a birthday present from her husband, the journalist and Liberal politician Sir Henry Norman.

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Target Tokyo- a formation Of Boeing B-29 Superfortresses en route from Guam, May 1945.

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Customers of the restaurant at the Hotel de Normandie in Paris, France, 1908

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Italian dictator Benito Mussolini visiting a wounded soldier during WW2. The photo was censored because of the soldier's terrified look. 1941

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Princeton University students after a snowball fight in 1893. Before the turn of the century, the snowball fight was a common tradition at the school — and many students packed their snowballs with rocks.

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A Japanese family moved back to the spot where their house stood before the devastation created by the atomic bomb blast that was unleashed on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. Casualty estimates for immediate deaths range from 22k to 75k. Only 150 Japanese soldiers were killed (Japan 1945)

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Three International Women - This stunning photo is of three women at the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia in October 10, 1885.

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Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Combined Circus: Congress of Freaks, 1924

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View of shelves of glass jars at Tu Du Hospital which contain foetuses deformed as a result of the United States' herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War. The US Army sprayed an estimate of 19 million gallons of defoliants and herbicides (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 1995)

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