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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill having a drink with Yugoslavian communist President Josip Broz Tito at 10 Downing st, 1953 (4096x3424)
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This is the first Coca Cola bottle sold to the public, launched on 12th of March 1894 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, at Biedenharn Candy Company. It contained about 3.5 grams of cocaine at the time.(1179x1215)
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Tony Kiritsis holding a shotgun to the head of his mortgage broker, Richard Hall. Kiritsis had fallen behind on mortgage payments. When Hall refused to grant him an extension, Kirtsis kidnapped him and held him hostage for 63 hours (Indiana, 1977) .
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'His Struggle, Your Death' — Soviet photomontage from the Second World War (ca. 1941) by Aleksandr Zhitomirsky.
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A security guard walking down US Highway 101 where there are towering stacks of hollow iron floats from which the iron antisubmarine nets were suspended to protect the US ports during the last war, by Hank Walker, 1953.
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