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The last photo ever taken of two-time British prime minister Winston Churchill in the weeks before his death at age 90, 1965 (950x1347)

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Execution of the murderer by burying him in the ground up to his neck. Unable to move, sleep, eat or drink, he dies a slow and painful death. In this photograph, he is still alive. Persia, 1870s.

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Zwierzyniecka Street in Kraków. Summer 1983.

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Ontario Premier Mitchell Hepburn with the Dionne quintuplets ca. 1934 (760x612)

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USS Glacier (AGB-4) USS Atka (AGB-3) and USS Burton Island (AGB-1) push together to move a huge iceberg from the channel to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 29 December 1965.

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Men carrying pots. Korea, around 1900

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Ukrainian family, author unknown, 1890s,

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Russian priests blessing Red Army soldiers (1943)

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Jerusalem Avenue near Bracka Street in Warsaw, Poland. 1936-1938. From the collection of National Digital Archive of Poland.

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Segregated swimming pool in Baconsfield Park, Macon, Georgia, 1959

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Tank on the streets of Bangkok during a student protest. Thailand, 1957

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Decoy of a Mikoyan MiG-29 'Fulcrum' fighter jet, from the Air Force of Yugoslavia - in a concrete shelter at the Batajnica Air Base, (25 km) northwest from Belgrade, destroyed by a NATO airstrike, c. March - June 1999.

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