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Ann Margaret USO tour 1967 573x739 both 96DPi
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Hokkaido Government Office after being blown up by an anarchist group, Japan, 1976.
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University of Pennsylvania dental students observing surgery in the Oral Surgery Clinic at the former Philadelphia General Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania circa 1910
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German submarine U-755 suffers a direct rocket hit from a RAF Lockheed Hudson Mark V of No. 608 Squadron in the Mediterranean Sea north-west of Mallorca. It sank in nine minutes with the loss of 40 lives. 28 May 1943
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Edmund Hillary took this photograph of Tenzing Norgay as they set foot on the summit of Mount Everest. 29 May 1953
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Alexander Gardner's photograph of Allan Pinkerton, Abraham Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand, at Antietam, 1862.
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A Khoekhoe tribesmen drinking from ostrich egg shells used as bottles in the Kalahari desert (South West Africa 1955)
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Two knocked-out German tiger tanks stand inertly at the approach to Cori, Italy while the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division advances into the town. 28 May 1944.
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U.S. Marines from the scuttled USS Yosemite in Guam, an island that was recently acquired by the U.S. from Spain following the Spanish-American War (December 1900)
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The arsenal of weapons found in the "death car" of Bonnie & Clyde, May 23, 1934.
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