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Five young men in front of a hut somewhere in Africa (c.1900)
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Mexican president Lazaro Cardenas boarding a plane, 1937. A revolutionary general, Cardenas implemented widespread populist reforms, ended the authoritarian reign of president Calles, & wrested Mexico's oil reserves from US control. He was the most popular Mexican president of the 1900's (3680x2566)
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Post WW2 Italian family in an Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Cabriolet. Sustenpass, Switzerland. Circa 1948
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Adolf Hitler gives a speech for students at the tennis hall Fehrbelliner Platz, 17 January 1932
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The last photo ever taken of US general & statesman Sam Houston, who served as president, senator, & governor of Texas, 1863. He defeated general Santa Anna in just 18 minutes at the battle of San Jacinto & is the only person in US history to have served as governor of two different states (725x558)
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Malta V West Germany in 1979. The pitch in Maltas Empire stadium was entirely made of concrete. (584x481)
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Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (middle) in disguise with his hair and beard shaved while working with Bolivian revolutionaries, 1960's. (2000x1784)
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Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin toasting British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's birthday in Tehran, Iran, 1943. Future Prime Minister Anthony Eden can be seen next to Churchill. (2048x1529)
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Commander Peter MacRitchie (HCMS) meets with liberated Canadian POWs at the Shamshuipo Prisoner Camp in Kowlon, Hong Kong, circa September 1945. Prior to liberation, the camp had been hit by significant diphtheria and beriberi outbreaks leading to the death of many prisoners.
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