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Cairo Mary, bouncer at Shanghai Red's in San Pedro, California, escorts a customer to the door in 1953.
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During the Battle of the Bulge, PFC Andy Masiero & Staff Sgt Urban Minicozzi of the 75th Infantry Division examine the headgear of PFC Masiero in the Ardennes. The young GI’s helmet was pierced by an enemy’s bullet which drew blood from his temple, but left him otherwise unscathed. 1944.
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A member of the U.S. invasion force aims a .45 at the head of a Panamanian suspected of being a member of Manuel Noriega's defense forces who had shed his uniform and dressed in civilian clothing to escape detection, 1989.
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Iconic 1936 photograph of Lampião, Brazil’s greatest and most notorious outlaw.
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Iranian students celebrating the victory of the Islamic Revolution, holding a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran, February 1979
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Annette Kellerman promoting a woman’s right to wear a fitted, one-piece bathing suit in 1907. She was later arrested for indecency.
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A ‘Schienenzeppelin' (rail zeppelin) alongside a steam train - at a railway station in Berlin, Germany, c. 1931.
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