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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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A giant snowman measuring 17 feet made by two children in Aberdeen, Scotland 1963
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Soviet T-26 tank overtakes German motorcyclists during the Nazi-Soviet joint parade in Brest-Litowsk, 22 September 1939
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A Russian ship full of soldiers. The little boy in white is Tsarevich Alexei, the haemophiliac heir to the Russian throne who was killed at age 14.
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Iraqi artillery shooting at Iranian targets near Khorramshahr during the offensive into Khūzestān, which marked the start of 8 years long, (inconclusive) war. October 1980
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An American soldier makes out an identity tag for a young German prisoner of war as another wounded Nazi supplies some necessary information. 9 June, 1944. (Colourized)
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