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Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre having a discussion with Ernesto “Che” Guevara - 1960 -
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On this day in 1955, Albert Einstein died. This was his desk as he left it, photographed just hours after his death. Armed with his camera and a case of scotch (to open doors and loosen tongues), Life photographer Ralph Morse captured images that lay hidden away for 50 years. (1010x1000)
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Start of the inaugural Monaco Grand Prix. Crowds watch as the cars speed along the street, led by the Bugatti driven by Marcel Lehoux. The first Monaco Grand Prix was staged on 14 April 1929, and was won by Grover-Williams in a Bugatti (Monaco 1929)
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Vietnamese soldiers waving goodbye to Cambodian villagers during the withdrawal of the Vietnamese army from Cambodia, the end of the Cambodian-Vietnamese War 1989
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Recovering British soldiers playing basketball with W.A.A.C.s in France, 1918. (Colourized)
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Heinrich Himmler at the funeral of Reinhard Heydrich, an architect of the Holocaust who was assasinated by two Czech parachuters on May 27th and died in hospital from the infection transmitted by his Maybach's horse hair components in the blast to his vital organs on June 4th. June 9, 1942.
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1996, The oldest person ever documented Jeanne Calment celebrating her 121st birthday by releasing a rap record titled Maîtresse du Temps (Mistress of Time)
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Excavations at the Cour Napoléon, the Louvre's main courtyard in 1985. Archeologists found walls dating to the Hundred Years' War, the central tower of the 12th century medieval Louvre, Gallo-Roman artifacts, Celtic graves & fragments of human activity from 4,000 BC.
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View of a group of young people lined up outside an 'Acid Test' set up to explore the use of LSD. The 'Acid Tests' were a series of parties hosted by a group called the Merry Pranksters who promoted the use of various forms of psychedelic drugs (Los Angeles, California 1966)
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The destroyed remains of Iraqi tanks and other armored vehicles litter an Iraqi military complex west of Diwaniyah. 16 April 2003
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Three days from his promotion to Generalfeldmarschall, Hermann Göring and Polish president Ignacy Mościcki on a hunting trip, 26 February 1938. In a year and a half, Germany would invade Poland and ignite the fuse of WWII.
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