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Danish humanitarian, Helge Meyer. When the U.N. gave up on Bosnia, Helge took it on himself to assist those affected. Using a modified ‘79 Camaro, he ran several tons of aid and supplies. Racking up more than 100,000 miles. 1992
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Cadillac de Ville against the background of the destroyed Presidential Palace Grozny, 1995
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Boris Yeltsin throws a horseshoe while playing the game outside the White House Oval Office with then-President George Bush in 1992 (1994X1495)
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Interior of British Imperial Airways commercial plane, 1936. (3088×3676)
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At 7’3” (221cm) Jakob Nacken was the tallest German soldier in WW2. Pictured here talking with 5’7” (170 cm) Eddie Worth, an AP photographer, after his surrender. 1944
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Man on a pole at World Pole Sitting Championships, Roelofarendsveen, The Netherlands, 9 August 1971
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Julie Shafer, 15, of Michigan eyes the ceremonial uniform of Sgt. Glenn Norman of the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. Queen’s Park, Toronto, Canada, March 1978.
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Dot Robinson (1912 - 1999) was a pioneering woman motorcyclist and co-founder of the American Motorcyclist Association-sanctioned Motor Maids riding club. Photographed in 1941.
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A Vietnamese paratrooper sniper stands in observation and firing position in the Phu Nho Quan area, on the edge of the Red River Delta, during Operation Mouette (Seagull) on October 4, 1953; during the fight for the Viet Bac, on Tonkin, French Indochina.
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An anti-Nazi protest in Chicago in 1978. A small group of neo-Nazis had planned a rally in Skokie, Ill., with the free speech support of the American Civil Liberties Union, but that march never happened.
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