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Actress Dona Drake playfully takes aim with a rifle on the balcony of her Los Angeles home, 1942. Photo by Peter Stackpole. .
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In the 1980s, Nixon Plumber G. Gordon Liddy and psychedelics advocate Timothy Leary toured the college lecture circuit billed as Nice Scary Guy vs. Scary Nice Guy.
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Two astronauts laugh with Pad Leader Gunther Wendt at Kennedy Space Center a few hours before the launch of Apollo 14. The helmet was a 'gag gift' from the astronauts, referring to Wendt's service in the Luftwaffe during World War 2. January 31, 1971.
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North American P-51D Mustang takes off from USS Shangri-La (CV-38) during a test flight on 15 November 1944.
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A canal in Venice (Italy) being drained and cleaned using a Decauville railway and two camels, 1956
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Ali Kavazoglou and Kostas Misiaoulis. Two Cypriot journalists that advocated for peace between Turkish and Greek Cypriots. Both were assassinated by Turkish militants on April 11th, 1965.
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Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, future Pope Pius XII, in 1939 in Lourdes (704x396)
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Coal miner’s child in grade school. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946. National Archives, Russell Lee photographer
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Italian sculptors, including the young Angelo Zanelli standing besides the completed statues that are about to be placed on the Vittoriano/Altare Della Patria monument in Rome, early 1900s.
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Jewish mothers walking with children past the barracks and the electrified barbed wire destined for the gas chambers at Auschwitz on May 27th, 1944.
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On August 12, 1898, the flag of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi over ʻIolani Palace was lowered to raise the United States flag to signify annexation.
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