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Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the left, debates Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic presidential nominee, during a live broadcast from a New York television studio of their fourth presidential debate on October 21 1960 .
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Jimmy Carter visiting the Confederados- Descendants of Confederates in Brazil (1972) (620*467)
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Family photograph of a Bulgarian Jewish woman wearing traditional clothing, Bulgaria, circa late 1800s
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1900: A live Carolina parakeet, the only parrot native to the eastern & midwestern United States. This bird went extinct in 1918 when the last individual, a male, died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Deforestation & poaching for the millinery industry were big causes for their rapid decline.
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Dior model has her clothes ripped off by onlookers incensed at the show of opulence, 1947
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The makeshift grave of polar researcher Alfred Wegener, member of the German Greenland Expedition, upon its discovery, Greenland, May 12, 1931
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Benjamin Ferencz was the last surviving prosecutor from the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. In 1947, he became the chief prosecutor in what was called "the biggest murder trial in history". He spent his entire life fighting for justice for the victims of war crimes. He died this week .
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US Marines and Iraqis are seen on 9 April 2003 as the statue of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is toppled at al-Fardous square (Baghdad, Iraq 2003)
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c. 1890s: The Caucasian wisent, a now-extinct type of bison found in parts of Eurasia. This is the only photo of a wild individual in life. Only one bull lived in captivity, who was bred with other bison and now has hybrid descendants. The last three wild ones were killed in 1927.
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Japanese "hybrid" battleship Hyūga sunk in the shallow waters of Hiroshima Bay, 1945, Kure.
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