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Nagasaki Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima is treated after being shot by a right-wing extremist. One year earlier, he had stated that Emperor Hirohito bore some responsibility for WW2. He received death threats afterwards, & was cut off by his party for refusing to retract his statement, 1990 (1144x747)
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American photographer Julien Bryan and Polish woman Kazimiera Mika (née Kostewicz) recreate photo of them taken on 13 September 1939, 19 years later in 1958. Warsaw, Poland, 1958.
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A local poses for the camera, atop one of the Great Pyramids of Giza. circa 1900.
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The Titanic at the docks of Southampton 10 April. 1912. 2000 x 1257 pixels
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Igor Sikorsky in the uniform of the Russian Empire in 1914, Sikorsky was a famous aircraft designer in Russia before the revolution and his escape to the USA where he founded the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, famous for the first helicopter.
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Soldier stands besides his M60 machine gun, which is mounted on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to deter rioters from entering the building during the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination riots in Washington D.C. (April 1968)
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Cuban women soldiers at the training camp of Punda, near Luanda, Angola, in January 1989. (Photo by Pascal Guyot / AFP)
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Before alarm clocks, people were employed to wake workers up with a long stick. A knocker-up was a profession in England and Ireland that started during and lasted well into the late 1920s.
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A extremely rare image from the 1970s of kim jong il shaking hands with future wife and singer ko Yong hui (also known as hime takada), she would become the mother of kim jong un (4032×3024)
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The last Empress of China, Wanrong, smoking next to her husband the last Emperor of China, Puyi (1930)
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