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Newly appointed Chancellor Adolf Hitler greets President von Hindenburg at a memorial service. Berlin, 1933.(649 x 473)

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Motel Manager James Brock Forces Out Black Protesters In The Monson Motor Lodge Swimming Pool By Pouring Muriatic Acid, June 18, 1964. (750 x 898)

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A baseball team of death-row inmates. Their executions were delayed only as long as they kept winning.Date 1910

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Lance Corporal John Auguste Emile Harris in 1915, the year of his enlistment and death.

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Hitler reacts to kiss from excited American woman at the Berlin Olympics, 1936. (1000x 697)

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An undercover police officer on duty in the 78th Precinct in Brooklyn, New York. 1 July, 1969.

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One the few existing photographs of Frederic Chopin, taken in 1849, a few months before his death.

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In segregated Tennessee of the 1950's, the Memphis Zoo allowed only 'colored people' to enter on Thursday of each week. (640x582)

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Czechoslovak President Václav Havel with the British band Rolling Stones, shortly after the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia. It was a symbol of freedom. Around 110,000 people came to their concert in Prague. (18.August 1990)

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Eskimo father and child, King Island, Alaska 1938

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Rudolf Höss, the longest serving commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, about to be hanged next to the crematorium of the camp in 1947.

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Fred Rogers being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. The event was held on Fred and Joanne Rogers' 50th Wedding Anniversary on July 9, 2002. (2002)

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