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William Holden, Jack Webb, and Nancy Olson in Sunset Boulevard (1950). Ironically, Webb appeared in Sunset Boulevard the year AFTER he launched Dragnet on NBC radio. More info below

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Guards protecting the Mona Lisa in Florence after its recovery in 1913 from the thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, who stole it in 1911. .

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Chinese street musicians circa 1865 . From left to right, I believe the instruments being played are the Sanxian, the Dizi, the Guzheng and the Erhu

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Chiang Kai-shek inspecting a group of boy scouts. Taiwan, March 29, 1960

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Boston Braves baseball pitcher Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn gives the finger to the camera. (330x330). 1886

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1910's-20's photo of Dietrich Eckart, antisemitic & German nationalist writer who was a mentor to Adolf Hitler & who has been called, "the spiritual co-founder of Nazism." Eckart co-founded the German Workers Party, a precursor to the Nazis, & participated in the 1923 "Beer Hall Putsch" (3520x2486)

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Martin PBM-3D Mariner prepares to launch from a coastal Naval Air Station in 1943

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The only Turkish child who managed to hide and survive in a Turkish village of 350 inhabitants in Crete, all of whom were massacred by Greek rebels, 1897

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Japanese woman walking through a field - during a Poppy harvest - in the State of Manchukuo, (occupied-northeastern China), Imperial Japanese Empire, c. 1930s.

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Luftwaffe Ace Hans Joachim Marseille telling a group of Hitlerjugend Flieger about his experiences from North Africa, June 1942.

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IRA volunteer Dan Breen on his wedding day holding his Mauser Pistol.1921

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Daughters of a wealthy Serbian family in the village of Smilevo, town of Demir Hisar in May 1913

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