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Michelin Man stands next to an advertising vehicle used in Santa Clara in 1926.
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Protests against accepting Chilean refugees into Canada. Toronto, Ontario, 1974.
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South African and former Rhodesian pilots (mercenaries) at an airfield of the Somali Air Force, near Hargeisa, they flew Hawker Hawker fighter-bombers (paid $2,000 per sortie), Somali Civil War, c. 1988.
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First Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and his sculpture (other man unknown, date unknown, no given location). Yuri is seen interacting with said (clay) sculpture. Does anyone know anything about this photograph? (500 x 331)
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Canadian soldiers, who were kept as prisoners of war after the 1941 Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, pose for a photo after the Allied victory. Hong Kong, August 1945.
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A construction worker tightens a bolt of the Empire State Building's steel framework during its construction. New York City, New York, USA. 1930.
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A stolen Army helicopter sits on the South Lawn of the White House. The daredevil pilot, identified as Army PFC Robert K. Preston, was forced down by a volley of shotgun blasts from federal police on the executive mansion grounds (Washington DC, USA 1974)
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Rifleman R.M. Douglas of The Royal Winnipeg Rifles with a group of Dutch women who are celebrating the liberation of Deventer, Netherlands. April 1945.
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Woodward and Bernstein watch Nixon’s first TV speech on Watergate in 1973. The two journalists did much of the initial reporting that brought the presidential scandal to light.
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Two children wearing masks of Hitler and Charlie Chaplin, London, c. 1940.
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A photo of Father Hans Schmidt, a Catholic priest who emigrated from Germany due to scandals. In 1913, he gained international notoriety after murdering a woman and drinking her blood. For this, he became the first and only Catholic priest to be executed in the United States .
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