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Vietnam War at its peak, A US Air Force Lieutenant is held captive by a young North Vietnamese girl soldier. 1967.
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Portrait of the Italian philosopher and politician Antonio Gramsci. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926 where he remained until his death in 1937 (Italy 1920s)
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"Shy bandit, dangerous bandit"- self-portrait of Polish painter, photographer and playwright Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz "Witkacy" (1885-1939). He's portraying two different personas. Poland, 1931.
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Swedish soldiers (under UN flag) interrogating a Katangese mercenary sniper they caught hiding in a tree, Congo 1961.
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Kurt von Schuschnigg, the former fascist dictator of Austria, announces that he is retiring and returning to Austria. After World War II, Schuschnigg moved to the United States, where he worked as a professor of political science at St. Louis University for nearly 20 years, 1967 .
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Colonel George S. Patton III and his father visit the grave of his Grandfather and Uncle, both were Confederate Colonels who fell in the war (his Uncle, at Gettysburg), buried in the same grave. 1919
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Mao Yichang, (1870-1920) Chinese farmer & grain merchant who fathered communist dictator Mao Zedong, early 1910's. Ironically, Yichang was a wealthy farmer & landowner by the standards of the environment he grew up in. (260x405)
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A photo of a female Jewish soldier in 1948 sipping from a clay jug, published by a military magazine. The caption in Hebrew reads: "Who's jealous of the jug?". This caused an Israeli poet to write a song about a lonely soldier lamenting that he isn't a jug.
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William Howard Taft riding a water buffalo in the Philippines. He served as an American Governor-General of the Philippine Islands before becoming the 27th President of the United States. C 1904
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Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini. The inventor of Sherlock Holmes and the escape artist became friends in 1920. A rift developed between them because the credulous Doyle believed in supernatural phenomena that Houdini knew to be clever trickery.
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