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Lenin's mausoleum, disguised as a residential building to avoid German bombing. Moscow, 1941.

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The car used for the 300 Million Yen Robbery. It was a robbery that occurred on 10 December 1968 in Tokyo. A man posing as a police officer stopped bank employees transferring money and stole 294m yen. It is the single largest heist in Japanese history. The case remains unsolved (1969)

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Russian soldiers during the Second Chechen War, 2000

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People leaving Suriname on November 23, 1975, two days before the country received its independence from the Dutch.

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Jerusalem Avenue in Warsaw, Poland, winter 1979. Photo by Jan Morek.

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What Christmas looked like 103 years ago- Two children around a Christmas tree, Washington D.C. , 1920.

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About 100 people participate in a lottery to divide a 12 acre plot of sand dunes, that would later become the city of Tel Aviv, 1909

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Los Angels Police Department Motor Officer, 1930.

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First Lady Dolley Madison with her niece, Anne Payne, in 1848

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Shining Path commander Abimael Guzman protesting while locked in a cage display for the media after being captured by the Peruvian police on September 24, 1992.

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A 23 year old Orson Welles in a color CBS publicity photo, 1938

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