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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at age 22, March of 1986 (1209x743)

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A prototype spacesuit for the moon designed by the Republic Aviation Corporation, March 16, 1960.

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British soldier captures German tank crewman during the Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt. Circa October/November, 1942

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Removing a Nazi flag from the German consulate in San Francisco, January 19, 1941

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Homecoming — a British soldier with his 8 month old daughter as he arrives at the docks from overseas, 1945.

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14 year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. being lead to the execution chamber where he was executed by electric chair at South Carolina Penitentiary. The youngest person executed in the USA. June 16, 1944 (220x211)

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Mao Zedong preparing for swimming in his Lushan resort, 1961. (980x735)

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Egyptian men sitting at the entrance to the Great Pyramid of Giza, with millennia of graffiti on the stone behind them. Egypt, 1870s. (Colourized)

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Pakistan ISI agent Brigadier Yasub Ali Dogar enjoying chai whilst the Soviet ammunition dumps in Gardez district are destroyed, mid 1980s~,

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The USS Shaw explodes in the background in this image of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941. (1240x1015)

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Snake handling at the Pentecostal Church of God. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky. 15 September 1946

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A mass of dead and wounded Chinese civilians outside Great World Amusement Center following an accidental bombing by a Nationalist Chinese warplane during fighting in Shanghai between Chinese and Japanese troops. 14 August 1937.

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