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PLA cavalry riding towards in the aftermath of the first Chinese nuclear weapon detonation, Lop Nur, Xinjiang 1964

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Singer, songwriter and American beauty Carole King in 1963 and from last year

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“The difference between Conservative party and Liberal party supporters” Japan, 2009, poster by unknown artist

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Glass negative photo of Peter Jackson, one of the first champions boxers of african origin, circa 1890s

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An interracial couple walking hand in hand through Midtown Manhattan in the 1960s

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The corpse of Mussolini (second from left) next to Petacci (middle) and other executed fascists in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, 1945.

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Pygmy family posing with European man for scale. Pygmy derives from Greek pygmaios, a term for dwarf from Greek mythology. There are hypotheses to explain the short stature such as lesser availability of protein-rich food sources or lower average levels of ultraviolet light. 1921.

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Mom and baby taking a nap 1970s

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"Profilo Continuo" (1933, Bertelli) A Continuous Profile of the face of Mussolini

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President George W. Bush lying in front of the White House with his Scottish Terrier Barney. (2001)

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Rodney Dangerfield, ca. 1974

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James Cameron, 88, stands in a gallery of Black Holocaust Museum, which he founded, in Milwaukee. When Cameron was 16, he was nearly lynched in Indiana. The noose was around his neck, but he was spared when someone in the mob vouched for him at the last moment (Wisconsin, 2003) .

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