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Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.

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People leaving Suriname on November 23, 1975, two days before the country received its independence from the Dutch.

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Jerusalem Avenue in Warsaw, Poland, winter 1979. Photo by Jan Morek.

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What Christmas looked like 103 years ago- Two children around a Christmas tree, Washington D.C. , 1920.

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About 100 people participate in a lottery to divide a 12 acre plot of sand dunes, that would later become the city of Tel Aviv, 1909

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Los Angels Police Department Motor Officer, 1930.

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First Lady Dolley Madison with her niece, Anne Payne, in 1848

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Shining Path commander Abimael Guzman protesting while locked in a cage display for the media after being captured by the Peruvian police on September 24, 1992.

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A 23 year old Orson Welles in a color CBS publicity photo, 1938

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Former Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring under cross-examination during the International Military Tribunal, Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, May 1946

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Charles Winters (right) was an American businessman who assisted Israel during the 1948 war. He helped Al Schwimmer, who is sometimes called the father of the Israeli Air Force, smuggle three B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers to Israel. Winters flew one of the bombers himself .

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Lee Miller, combat photographer in Hitler’s Munich apartment on April 30, 1945

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Young Ho-Chi-Minh, 1921

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