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Sharon Tate showing off the baby clothing she had bought in London, UK in 1969.

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Italian engineer and inventor Guglielmo Marconi, with instruments used to receive the first transatlantic wireless transmission sent from Cornwall, England. Signal Hill, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Dec 1901.

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A German soldier returns home only to find his family no longer there. Frankfurt, 1946.

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A woman in Bayeux looks out the window at the Allied military passing through town. A tricolor flag rises again, 1944 .

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View of Fremont Street with a car racing (Las Vegas, Nevada c1928)

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German soldiers and civilians give the Nazi salute as thousands of books smoulder during one of the mass book-burnings implemented throughout the country to destroy non-Aryan publications (Nazi Germany 1933)

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Ben Carlin and Barry Hanley on their amphibious jeep in the port of Hong Kong. Ben Carlin has been the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle. He travelled over 17,000 km by sea and 62,000 km by land during a 10-year journey (Hong Kong 1956)

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In this picture British soldiers are marching towards the Somme in 1916. They run into the unknown, many of them only found death in the end.

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A French man reacts to trying Coca-Cola for the first time 1950s.

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Commander of British land forces Sir Jeremy Moore accepts the surrender of Argentinian General Mario Menéndez in the Falklands, 1982

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Two moonshiners arrested by federal agents near St. Paul, Minnesota, 1921.

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Singer/actor/activist Paul Robeson leads Oakland shipyard workers in The Star Spangled Banner, 1942

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