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Margaret Trudeau, estranged wife of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, dances at New York City's Studio 54, May 23, 1979. A few hours earlier her husband conceded defeat in the Canadian elections.

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Americanized Eskimos, Nome, Alaska, taken between 1896 to 1913

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Taken in 1945. The atomic bomb, "Little Boy," in a sunken loading pit just before being loaded into the B-29 that dropped it over Hiroshima. 140,000+ death toll.

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Jimmy Carter stands between Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin during the 1978 Camp David Conference, at which Egypt and Israel agreed to end thirty years of hot and cold war between the two nations.

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St Louisans Sledding down Art Hill in Forest Park - Saint Louis, Missouri - c.1930s

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The Great Sphinx of Giza, photographed 172 years ago, 1851. (Colourized)

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Martin Monti was a St. Louis Air Force pilot who defected to Nazi Germany and joined the Waffen-SS. After the war, he initially managed to conceal his defection. But minutes after being honorably discharged, he was arrested for treason. Monti was arraigned while still in uniform, 1948 .

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The shortest, tallest and fattest man of europe playing a game of cards - 1913 - Colorised

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All of them pick shrimp at the peerless oyster co. photo was taken while bosses were at dinner as they refused to permit the children to be in photos. bay St. Louis, Miss, March 1911. photo by Lewis Wickes Hine

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Huge concert organized by Dr. Goebbels in the Berlin Philharmonic hall to mark the 54th Birthday of Adolf Hitler (20 April 1943). Original color pic taken by Hugo Jaeger

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Young Dutch skater equipped with a safety cushion, 1933 -

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Hitler, Bormann and others at the 1938 Nürnberg Rally, Original color picture by Hugo Jaeger.

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