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Four men sitting in William Howard Taft's would-be White House bathtub, 1909
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The World Trade Center soon after completion. New York City was on the verge of bankruptcy around this time and the World Trade Center sat largely vacant, with two homeless men squatting on the lot. Photograph taken by Jean-Pierre Laffont.(1975)560x841
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The Tatenokai, a nationalist militia led by Yukio Mishima, parades in Tokyo.(1960s)
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North Korean football player Pak Do Ik. He scored the winning goal against Italy in the World Cup (1-0) in 1966 getting North Korea through to the quarter-finals. (they were then beaten by Portugal). This picture of him was taken in 2002 by Koryo Studio (600x800).
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The group Milli Vanilli gives a thumbs up at the 32nd Grammy Awards. It was given the Grammy for Best New Artist. Later that year, the group would be stripped of their award because they did not sing at all on their album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals (Los Angeles 1990)
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Eldridge Cleaver & David Hilliard of the Black Panther Party holding a press conference w/ the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Algiers, Algeria @ the Pan-African Cultural Festival (1969)
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Bobbie Jean Sergeant, 4, goes with her sister Lucy, 26, who is blind, to get water. P V & K Coal Company, Clover Gap Mine, Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946. (National Archives photo, Russell Lee photographer)
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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at Chazy Lake, New York with a .22 Smith & Wesson she carried when refusing her Secret Service Protection - 1934
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Kaiser Wilhelm II. dressed in the uniform of a British Field Marshal at Marlborough House, London, on occasion of his grandmother Queen Victoria's funeral, 1901
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Paolo Pedrizzetti's famous photo of leftist activist Giuseppe Memeo at the Via De Amicis confrontation in Milan. This photo became an iconic picture of Italy's years of lead. (1977)
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A young spinner in the Century Cotton Mills in South Boston, Virginia. The ten-year-old sister on the right helps with the baby. Photograph by Lewis Hine, June 1911.
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