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Soviet oncologist. Photo by Yuri Kuidin, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1973

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Tilda Swinton - 1986

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A businessman watches Ed Sullivan from a hotel room in San Francisco, December 1958.

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US President Abraham Lincoln seated at his second inauguration ceremony next to former & incoming vice-Presidents Hannibal Hamlin & Andrew Johnson, 1865. (2048x1702)

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Preston Porter Jr., 15, reads a Bible for comfort as he is led by rope to be burned at the stake by a lynch mob. After being tortured for 4 days, he'd confessed to killing a white girl after the police said his father and brother would also be lynched unless he talked (Colorado, 1900) .

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Christmas Morning 1969 with my my little sis. Taken by my dad with his new Polaroid.

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Michael Dukakis runs over Joe Biden by Doug Marlette, 1987

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Soviet Mi-8 Flying Past the Bamiyan Buddha, Afghanistan 1980

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Belka The Space Dog Upon Returning From Her Cosmic Voyage. USSR, August 1960

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With my aunt and mom, very happy to be a college graduate. 1975

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The Oldest Verified Person in History: Jeanne Calment (122 years old) Photo 1992

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An American family pay their respects towards the casket of “Bobby” Robert F. Kennedy as his funeral railcar passes by, just days after he was assassinated in June of 1968.

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