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Chippendales Night Club, The first strip club in LA - 1979. Photo via - Bettmann Archives

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Kermit the Frog and Piggy Pig make an unannounced visit to the set of "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back", 1979.

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The hull of one of the 2 large ships found in the small lake of Nemi on the outskirts of today's Rome in 1929, the ships were destroyed by fire in 1944 during W. W. II. In front people for scale. Ships were built under the reign of the Roman emperor Caligula in the 1st century AD.

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Ceremonial unbraiding of the bride's braid at a wedding (Rozpleciny) in the Kurpie region of north-eastern Poland in 1928.

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Mist rises from Victoria Falls, a mile-wide waterfall on the Zambezi River, as it drops into a narrow 355-foot chasm on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia. The falls were named by British explorer David Livingstone (1970)

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Saxton Pope, promoter of modern bow hunting in 1923, 3 years before his death.

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Kodak K-24 for American aerial photography during World War II, 1943.

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U.S. soldiers making friends with french children during the Normandy Invasion. 9 June 1944

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October 6 1897, equator crossing ceremony aboard the Belgica (828x560)

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My dad photographed Mt. St. Helens erupting. This is from June 1980, after the main eruption.

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A boy with a handmade wire toy truck (Maun, Botswana 1974)

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Swedish bankrobber Clark Olofsson barricaded in a vault with hostages, from the event that coined the term Stockholm Syndrome. Norrmalmstorg, 26th August, 1973. .

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