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At my desk hardly working, 1984
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The B-2 stealth bomber “Spirit of America” carried out the longest bombing run in history, flying over 44 hours from Missouri to bomb Afghanistan, seen here in the opening stages of Operation Enduring Freedom, October 8, 2001.
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Japanese Samurai visiting the Sphinx in Egypt, Year 1864 (1380 × 1008)
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Seven women getting their photo taken jokingly dressed as men. Photograph taken in a photo studio in Visby, Gotland, Sweden in the 1890s.
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19th-century Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho, 1880's. One of the biggest crime bosses in Japan & one of the richest, most powerful men in the entire country. He had powerful ties to the Japanese government during both the Shogunate & the Meiji restoration (1307x1300)
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Kodachrome shot of a couple dancing in a small juke party, South Carolina, 1956
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View from the Window at Le Gras, the world’s first permanent photograph. Taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in France, 1826.
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