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One of the only known photos of Subha Talfah, the mother of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taken sometime in the 1950's or 60's. Subha unsuccessfully tried to abort Saddam before he was born. (594x424)
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"The Mongol storm will be broken in Berlin" | Goebbels Last speech under Soviet Artillery fire (21 April 1945)
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Percy Fawcett, who disappeared 100 years ago today and was never seen again whilst on an expedition into the Amazon Rainforest looking for a lost city he referred to as “Z”. May 1925,.
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Country store on a dirt road in Gordonton, North Carolina photographed by Dorothea Lange on a Sunday afternoon in July 1939.
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John F. Schrank after his arrest. On October 14, 1912, Schrank shot former president and Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt outside a Milwaukee hotel. .
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29 May 1953. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mount Everest.
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100 year old lady grinding coffee in her kitchen, Pitsburgh, April 1953
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Lady Diana Falling Asleep During An Official Royal Engagement, 1981. She was actually pregnant with Prince William at the time, but her pregnancy had yet to be announced.
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Reluctantly meeting a tapir while wearing matching muumuus with my mom, 1961
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National Parks worker James Hudson uses a cloth-wrapped pole to clean Lincoln's ear at the Lincoln Memorial in 1987 - Bettmann / Getty
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