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Robert Peary at the North Pole cheering the 'Stars and Stripes'. Peary was an American explorer, and claimed to be the first to have reached the geographic North Pole. Peary's claim was certified by the National Geographic Society, a major sponsor of his expedition (Arctic 1909)
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A substitute telephone was installed to protect a robin that built its nest in a phone booth. White Oak, Maryland, 1966.
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Jackie Arklöv, Liberian-German (adopted and raised in Sweden) mercenary on the Herzeg-Bosnia side and a war criminal. In the photo from the 1990s, he is about 20 years old and wearing his own informal uniform. In Sweden he took part in a bank robbery for which he received a life sentence.
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Portrait of Amy Johnson. She was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and disappeared during a ferry flight (United Kingdom 1933)
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Photo of Crazy Horse with Buffalo Bill, Chief Joseph, and Wild Bill Hickok circa 1875-1880
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Soviet MGB officers negotiate with UPA militants (Ukrainian separatists) blocked in an underground bunker, 1946 (800х451)
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A defected Iranian soldier being lifted by protestors against the Pahlavi dynasty during the Iranian Revolution. January 1979.
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The earliest surviving Japanese photograph depicting Shimazu Nariakira, a Japanese feudal lord (daimyō) taken by one of his retainers, Ichiki Shirō in 1857.
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First official commemoration of Warsaw Uprising on August 1, 1957. It came shortly after Polish thaw of October 1956. Many of the veterans were freshly out of Stalinist prisons.
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Finnish and Soviet border guards having coffee together.early 80s. {960x720}
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Executed Communards in Paris, c. 1971. They were members of the National Guard and supporters of the 1871 Paris Commune, the world's first socialist government, which was formed in the aftermath of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War
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