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A woman in Kafiristan, Afghanistan, 1885. The Kafirs were forcibly converted to Islam in 1895, and thence the region has become known as Nuristan ("land of illumination", or "land of light").
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Gambler, gangster, and founder of the Horseshoe Casino, Benny Binion sits at a poker table with his son Ted Binion in Las Vegas, 1970s.
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Iran 1955: (front, left to right): Queen Soraya Pahlavi, Princesses Ashraf, Shams, Fatemeh Pahlavi; (back; left to right) Princess Hamdamsaltaneh Pahlavi, Eva Karl (mother of Queen Soraya).
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Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the left, debates Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic presidential nominee, during a live broadcast from a New York television studio of their fourth presidential debate on October 21 1960 .
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Jimmy Carter visiting the Confederados- Descendants of Confederates in Brazil (1972) (620*467)
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Family photograph of a Bulgarian Jewish woman wearing traditional clothing, Bulgaria, circa late 1800s
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1900: A live Carolina parakeet, the only parrot native to the eastern & midwestern United States. This bird went extinct in 1918 when the last individual, a male, died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Deforestation & poaching for the millinery industry were big causes for their rapid decline.
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Dior model has her clothes ripped off by onlookers incensed at the show of opulence, 1947
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The makeshift grave of polar researcher Alfred Wegener, member of the German Greenland Expedition, upon its discovery, Greenland, May 12, 1931
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