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Opening session of the Second Vatican Council. The council was opened on 11 October 1962 by pope John XXIII and was closed on 8 December 1965 by pope Paul VI. It is considered the most significant event in the history of Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation (Vatican City 1962)

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Fish seller selling fish on the street. Hel, Poland, July 1932.

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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (R) brief reporters at the Pentagon following the US bombing raids on Afghanistan. On 7 October 2001, the US began military operations in Afghanistan with air strikes across the country, starting the longest war in American history (Washington, DC)

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McDonald’s menu, 1970

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A couple poses near their home on their wedding day in East Beirut, Lebanon 1989. Photo by Joseph Barrak.

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Muscovites taking a stroll outside while the House of Soviets of Russia burns, 4th of October 1993. 1494x1144.

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A woman her bike while balancing two buckets of milk. Netherlands, mid-1940s.

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A young Tibetan woman from Darjeeling, Northern India, 1920s-1930s.

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Movie star Anthony Quinn converses with King Hussein of Jordan on the set of “Lawrence of Arabia”. The King was a huge supporter of the production, loaning an entire brigade of his own troops to work as extras in the film. 1962

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Worker and supervisor at a car factory, Moscow, 1954

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1951, Will Keith Kellogg, America cereal manufacturer (Kellogg’s cereal brand) dies at 91.

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Tail gunner in a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress, 1943. (Original color photo)

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