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Mill Creek, Knott County, Kentucky. Completing her mission at a lonely mountain cabin, the Pack Horse Librarian turns up the trail toward similar cabines where she is anxiously awaited. January 11, 1938

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MCpl Clayton Matchee of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, with a beaten and bruised Shidane Abukar Arone, a Somali teenager. Arone would be tortured to death by the paratroopers, sparking a national inquiry. Belet Huen, Somalia, Mar 16 1993.

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Luftwaffe airmen crew a heavily armed "Siebel" ferry during a review, Lahdenpohja, Lake Ladoga, 13 August 1942.

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18 year old Mike Tyson with his trainer Cus D'Amato before his first professional fight in 1985

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A promotional photograph for the Hollywoodland housing development in Los Angeles, circa 1925. The sign was built in 1923.

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Norwegian Quislings (Nazi collaborators) of the collaborationist group "Sonderabteilung Lola" stand trial for treason. They were responsible for torturing, killing, and systematically informing on resistance fighters, 1946 .

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c. 1975: Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro on the set of "Taxi Driver."

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A photograph of Mrs. Yang, the wife of the Chinese Ambassador to the US. Inscribed on back “To Miss May H. Morgan, from her friend Mrs. Yang. Washington May 28th 1895”

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Pope Saint John Paul II meets with Mehmet Agca, the man who attempted to assassinate him, 1983.

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A woman named Charlotte Shipley charges her electric car’s battery in her garage with a cord from a hand-cranked electrical generator, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1912

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U.S. Marine Private Theodore James Miller returns to attack transport USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) after two days of combat on Engebi, Eniwetok Atoll, February 1944. Miller would die in combat at Ebon Atoll a month later.

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Louis-Victor Baillot, who fought in Napoleon’s army. At the time of his death at the age of 105, he was last living veteran of the Battle of Waterloo. 1897

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