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My grandfather with a fresh Gladstone bag, and medical degree at 23 years old. 1925 Maryland

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“American Know-How”, 1969 political cartoon criticizing space program

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Young Israeli settlers rest on concrete blocks sprayed with grafitti that reads "No Arabs No Terror" as they wait for a bus, guarded by soldiers at Tapuah Junction checkpoint on the southern outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus, 25 September 2001.

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Photos from the last Romanov costume ball held at Winter Palace in 1903. It was held in the in two stages, on February 11 and 13

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Little Hawaiian dancer poses for a tourist, Hawaii, 1956

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German 6th Army, surrendering to the Soviets at Stalingrad, the biggest battle of WW2 and of all time 1943

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand posing as a mummy on a trip to Cairo in 1896

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Computer animation in the 90s was no joke

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British occupied Constantinople, 1919

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2023 political cartoon by Leo Kelly. The cartoon was later removed following backlash.

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Grand Dutchess Victoria Melita with her daughter Elisabeth, 1899

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J. Robert Oppenheimer lectures at Kyoto University on September 14, 1960 in Kyoto, Japan

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