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Gandhi at a meeting with boys from Opera Nazionale Balilla, the youth wing of the National Fascist Partyin Rome, where he also met Mussolini on his way home from London's Conference, 12 December 1931.

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Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir receives a hug from a student during a visit to Fourth Street School in Milwaukee on Oct. 3, 1969. Meir, who became prime minister of Israel earlier that year, attended the school when she was growing up in Milwaukee.

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December 4, 1914. Francisco "Pancho" Villa taunts the press by sitting on the Mexican presidential chair.

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U.S. Army Nurses sunbathing next to a twin Bofors 40 mm gun on a Coast Guard troop ship returning back to the United States from Europe, 1945.

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Woman in knee-length dress and pants, ca. 1870s. Any ideas if the clothing and hairstyle indicate a religious or social community? From a bound photo album I bought years ago. Subject and photographer unknown.

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Laurence “Scrappy” Blumer and his Lockheed P-38 Lightning “Scrapiron IV” - On August 25, 1944 he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for shooting down 5 German fighters in 15 minutes, which also made him an Ace in a single mission.

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An elderly man grilling chikuwa (fish cakes). Japan, 1932

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Actors Raymond Burr and Vic Perrin in a publicity still for CBS Radio's Fort Laramie, 1956. This excellent show ran one season. The next year, Burr was cast as Perry Mason for television (more info below)

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1915. Mugshot of Helen Oliver, Manicurist and Suspicious Person. (1622 × 1272)

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7 Oct 1943, Ottla Kafka, beloved sister of author Franz Kafka, was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid

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The Great Wall of China at the Nankou/Juyong Pass (China c1907)

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Three children eating noodles. Japan, 1890-1923

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