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Eugen Sandow is known as the “The Father of Bodybuilding,” and the Mr. Olympia trophy is called “The Sandow” in reference to him. Photo by D.Bernard, 1902

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Typhoid Mary (foreground), very annoyed to be quarantined when she isn't even sick. 1909,

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Tsar Nicholas II and his identical cousin George V (Queen Elizabeth's grandfather) portrayed in Berlin in 1913 in German military uniform.

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American paratrooper after combat in Vietnam, 1966

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Policemen arresting a demonstrator when local people blocked the march of the British Union of Fascists in Cable Street in London’s East End. 4 October 1936. .

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The priest fires a machine gun. South Lebanon (Lebanese Civil War), May 1985 .

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Chet Baker photographed by Bob Willoughby in Los Angeles, 1953

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Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth serving soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen, November 17th, 1942

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Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, the first woman to earn a doctorate in computer science in the United States, 1965.

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Costas Georgiou, a cypriot serving as british soldier and later as mercenary in Angolan Civil War. He is assumed to be one of the shooters responsible for Bloody Sunday in N. Ireland. He was executed by MPLA in 1976 at the age of 24

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Flemish students protesting French speakers be expelled from the University of Leuven in 1968. (1190 × 669)

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A Soviet bomber crewman takes a photo of an F-4 Phantom with its RIO taking a picture of the Tu-142 Bear F over the Atlantic, c. 1970s

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