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Young newlyweds, Poland, 1924

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''WHY MUST WE FREE THE FALKLANDS?'' - anti-British cartoon (''The Ohio State Lantern'') made by American cartoonist John Backderf during the Falklands War, April 14, 1982

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Japanese soldiers waiting in line outside a "comfort station". Occupied China, late 1930s-early 1940s.

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Left-wing Iranian students celebrate the victory of the Islamic Revolution with a picture of Ayatollah Khomenei. Iran, c.1979

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Kids dressed for Halloween on a school bus, 1980s.

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A photo of inventor Franz Reichelt just before his death after jumping off the first deck of the Eiffel Tower, 187 feet or 57 meters above ground (February 4th, 1912) .

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My parents 9 +/- months before I was born. (around) May 1981

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…. "We are not Yankees, we are Slavs. Our brothers are Russians!" Odessa 2007

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Empress Elisabeth of Austria hiding her face from early paparazzi, circa 1865

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Jan, 1973, first photo of me and my dad, Frank (deceased in May)

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A Russian soldier looking over Constantinople | 11th Russo-Turkish War (1878)

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Winston Churchill perched on the remnants of Hitler's chair in 1945.

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