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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie minutes before their assasination that would ingnite WW1, June 28,1914
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7-year-old Drew Barrymore casually removes her fake teeth on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson while promoting E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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A US soldier rests in what used to be Saddam’s chair under a painting of Uday playing with a tiger, watched by his parents Saddam and Sajeda, April 2003.
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Civil war veteran poses with his grandchildren, circa 1880. Cabinet card
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The first ever underwater photograph taken in the South of France at a depth of 164 feet by Louis Boutan in 1899
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The first photograph of Chernobyl was taken 14 hours after the explosion on April 26, 1986. It was taken from a helicopter assessing the radiation levels in the accident zone.
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1967, California. My mom at 7 years old in her Girl Scouts uniform, receiving a pin from her mom.
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John Denver and Johnny Cash sing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in their only ever performance together, 1978
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An image of the most lethal sniper in history, the White Death. It is estimated that Simo Häyhä killed more than 500 enemy soldiers during the winter conflict. (1940)
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