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Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.

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Old Korean scholar drinking a bottle of coke - the first known photographed record of coca cola in Korea, 1947.

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Carolyn Jones - 1964 -

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Hong Kong Police officers change cap badges at the stroke of midnight following the handover of sovereignty to China (1997-07-01)

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Adolf Hitler and Gauleiter Alfred Meyer in preparation for state elections. Bad Salzuflen, Germany, 1933

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On September 1, 1936, the CNT anarchist militiawoman Pepita Laguarda Batet died in combat near Huesca, on the Aragon front. She was only 17 years old when she ran away from home to join the Ascaso Column. In this photo she is leaving Barcelona on August 1, 1936

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Security staff surround some of the people injured in the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981. .

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Mao in front of "Red Academy", Yan'an, China 1938

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Exhumed corpse of Gustav Vasa king of Sweden 1523-1560, picture taken in 1945.

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Susan Kare, an artist who designed numerous fonts, icons and images for Apple, Microsoft and IBM in the 1980s.

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FBI Director J Edgar Hoover fishing with his longtime deputy and best friend, Clyde Tolson, 1930's. The relationship between the two men, who spent most of their professional & private time together, was unusually close, and sparked rumors of an extended homosexual romance for decades. (1000x750)

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GIs read news of Hitler's Death, 1945

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A Lebanese resident of Berlin drags an 85lb cross toward the Brandenburg Gate to protest the building of the Berlin Wall. October 1961. East German border Guards denied him entry. (1000 x 700.)

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