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Western Tourists as they were taking photographs of a Snake Charmer, which was using a Pungi instrument to 'control' the snake - alongside a road in a rural part of India, c. 1959.
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Shadows of the World Trade Center across Lower Manhattan (Nathan Benn), 1988 (3840x2525)
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The 9 Kings of Europe gather for the first and only time for a photograph at the funeral of King Edward VII in London. May 20th, 1910 (Colorized and remastered with Topaz Labs Photo AI)
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Louvre excavators uncover the 12th century keep of King Philippe-Auguste, 1980s
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This is Onni Kokko, a 14 year old child soldier who fought for the Whites in the Finnish Civil War and later died in the Battle of Tampere. Finland, 1918
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Hungarian border guards dismantling the border fence with Austria. This will allow a number of East Germans to defect and flee to Austria (Hungary 1989)
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Swedish soldiers during FMÖ Väst -86, a large training exercise which was held in southern Sweden. The exercise attracted a large public gathering. Sweden 1986..
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A blind couple walking with their child in the streets of Budapest. 1984
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First photograph of the entire Earth taken by a human December 21, 1968
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78 years ago today (27.4.1945). The Finnish flag was raised on the three-country cairn between Norway, Sweden, and Finland to celebrate the last German troops withdrawing from Finland and marking the end of World War 2 in Finland
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George H.W. Bush holds a young George W. Bush in New Haven 1947,April (800X1008)
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In 1959, Nils Bohlin of Volvo invented the modern V-type seat belt — and made the patent open for any auto maker to use.
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