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This man just hit the bullseye. A camera automatically takes a picture when someone performs this feat. Location is the Rockaway Playland Shooting Gallery sometime in the early 1950s. I wonder if he was an infantry man in WW2.
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A young pro Taylor fighter, mortally wounded, does not immediately realize the seriousness of his condition because he is under the influence of drugs, Liberia, July 2003.
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A starving Irish family from Carraroe, County Galway, during the Famine (1845-1852). Source: National Library of Ireland .
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Vietnamese women and children in Mỹ Lai photographed by U.S. Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle moments before they were killed during the My Lai Massacre, March 16, 1968 .
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My great-grandmother holds my mother (1981), and later, me. Both in Kyrgyzstan.
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Egyptian president anwar sadat at the great pyramids in March 1979, if you look closely you'll notice he's sitting on a replica of one of the thrones of tutankhamun (1072×1500)
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I was possibly the most rootinest tootinest cowgirl in all of the (mid)West 🤠 (1995)
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Canadians in Yukon territory celebrates the end of the 19th century with a Masquerade Ball at Pioneer Hall on December 31, 1899
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Future leader of North korea Kim Jong il inspecting high heels, (Kim himself was known for wearing shoes with a heel to increase his height) 1980s (4032×3024)
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'10 years of NATO' — Swiss cartoon (May 1959, Nebelspatler magazine) celebrating the tenth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty
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