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A 40 year old Vladimir Putin carrying bags for St Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak during his tenure as Committee head for External Relations for the city, 1992. Despite his relatively minor role in Russian politics, within a decade Putin would become the most powerful man in the country (1600x1094)
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A Russian police officer armed with an AKS-74U 'Krinkov' carbine, as he stood guard over prostitutes which were arrested in an anti-vice/anti-organized crime operation in Moscow, c. 1990s.
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A bomb squad removes a pipe bomb left at the Times Square Paramount theater left by serial bomber George Metesky who terrorized New York for 17 years, December 1956.
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A Russian Immigrant and Her 11-month-old Baby (55lbs) at Ellis Island 1908
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A 1917 prison photo of Robert Bennett. In 1911, he received a life sentence for raping a 10-year-old girl in Western Australia. He was freed three years later after the Salvation Army said they could help keep him "away from temptation". Bennett later raped a 4-year-old girl in Victoria .
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1990s mugshot of Rafael Perez, corrupt Bloods-affiliated LAPD officer accused of crimes ranging from the shooting of gang member Javier Orlando to the theft of $800,0000 in cocaine & the murder of rapper ‘The Notorious BIG.’ He inspired Denzel Washington’s character in “Training Day” (1001x871)
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John M. Wright was a white man who hid black people in his home during the Rosewood massacre of 1923. He and his wife were excommunicated for doing so and died in obscurity
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The body of John Torrington, after being exhumed on Beechey Island (1984). Torrington was a member of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition and was one of the first to pass, sometime in late 1845. He died of pneumonia, complicated by lead poisoning (560X550).
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