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Charles Aznavour protesting the Azerbaijani blockade against Nagorno Karabakh (Paris 1991)
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Group photo of Allied government and military leaders from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom during the First Quebec Conference, codenamed Quadrant. 18 August 1943
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A five minute exposure of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department helicopter circling above Carson, California. 8 May 1986
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Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, photographed with pillow case over head in Ottawa, Ontario 1954 . Gouzenko was a clerk in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa and defected 3 days after the end of World War II. His defection is regarded as a catalyst for the start of the Cold War.
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Police raided the Scientology headquarters in Toronto and seized an estimated 250,000 documents in more than 900 boxes. 1983. .
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A group of youngsters tied a bicycle tubes around their body as a swimming aid. Germany, 1925.
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A Polish girl walks in front of a March for the Kurdish people in the Polish city of Kielce, 1974. (560x752)
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National Guardsmen on a jeep as they patrol the streets of the Watts neighborhood after the declaration of Marshall Law due to ongoing riots. Nearly 14,000 members of the National Guard helped suppress the disturbance, which resulted in 34 deaths (Los Angeles, California 1965)
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Composer Giacomo Puccini and conductor Arturo Toscanini looking dapper, 1910. They were in New York for the debut of Puccini's opera La fanciulla del West.
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Capt. James H. Carlyle of Denver, Colorado, drinking beer while soaking in a tub of hot sulphur water after being in action for weeks on Iwo Jima, 1945
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