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Queen Elizabeth II wears a hardhat as she tours the Frood nickel mine in Sudbury, Ontario. Summer of 1959. This stop was part of a larger tour the Queen undertook of Canada which included opening the St. Lawrence Seaway with President Dwight Eisenhower.

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North Korean citizens in Pyongyang welcoming the Soviet army after liberation, 1946

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Residents of the Riverside neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, demonstrating in front of the house of Lloyd G. Austin, an African American man who had recently moved in to the all-white neighborhood in 1956.

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Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and his wife Michèle flee to the airport amid nationwide demonstrations. They fled to France on 7 February 1986.

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(seated on the left) Prime Minister of Albania, Essad Toptani, with high-ranking Allied officers, looking at documents in a large tent - on the Salonika Front, c. 1916 - September 1918.

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Renowned psychotherapist and Auschwitz survivor Dr Viktor Frankl in 1947, a few years after losing his wife, unborn child, parents, and brother in the Nazi camps

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Polish-Soviet War, Battle of Warsaw: Polish defences with a machine gun position near Miłosna, in the village of Janki, August 1920.

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An elderly Welsh woman standing outside of her small home ‘Tŷ unnos’ – in rural Wales - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, c. 1880.

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The Defense of the Pioneers, Leningrad, 1937. Photographer Victor Bulla

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Wairere House in Whanganui, New Zealand after a suicide bombing in 1982. It was home to the National Law Enforcement System database.

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Anthropologist Alexander K. Serzhputovsky and an Afro-Abkhaz family in Adzyubzha, Sukhumi okrug, Russian Empire. 1912

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South Korean spy chief Kim Jae-Gyu and some of his collaborators reenacting his assassination of President Park Chung Hee, formerly one of his closest friends, as part of an investigation into the slaying, 1979. Kim and his co-conspirators would be executed the following year. (1200x779)

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