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Johann Petursson, 7'8 performer and actor, 1930s

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School in Northern Palestine, ~1900

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Unification Act being read, Ukraine, 1919

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Livestock at the market, Canterbury, UK, ~1900

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Afghan Army defector poses with Mujahedeen against the Soviet invasion, 1980

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Woman charges her electric car in her garage, USA, 1912

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French soldiers in camouflage, WW1, ~1916

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Anti British occupation demonstrators, Egypt, 1951

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Maasai warriors alongside a train of the Ugandan Railway, British East Africa, ~1900

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Shepherds on stilts to help traverse marshy ground, Gascony, France, ~1895

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Members of the Niitsitapi ('Blackfoot') people at Glacier National Park, USA, ~1910

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German checkpoint guard, Eastern Front, WW1, 1915-1916

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Ophelia DeVore Mitchell, groundbreaking African-American model, businesswoman, and publisher, on an outing with her family, 1946

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Luf Boat, New Guinea, ~1914

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Nazi Schwimmwagen entering water, WW2, 1942

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Elvis Presley and B.B. King, Memphis, USA, 1957

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Lady Florence Norman on her motorized scooter, London, UK, 1916

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Paterson Strike Pageant parade, New York City, USA, 1913

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Member of the Albanian Legion in service to Austria-Hungary, WW1, 1916

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Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist and women's rights activist, USA, 1864

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Colorized photo of a German pilot in an electrically-heated flight suit on the Western Front, WW1, 1917

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Kyrgyz woman on horseback, Soviet Union, 1936

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Swedish ski troops, lead with a BAR variant, 1940s?

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Austro-Hungarian soldier as the Krampus, WW1, 1917

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Tricycle gang in Brooklyn, New York, USA, ~1940?

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Female Apache scout, Arizona, USA, 1886

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Machinegun motorcycle, 39th Tomsk Infantry Division, Russian Empire, WW1, 1916

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Schoolboys in Harlem, New York, USA, ~1930

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An indigenous man knocks over a statue of a Spanish conquistador on the 500th anniversary of the European discovery of the Americas, Chiapas, Mexico, 1992

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Colorized photo of Soviet AA gunner Elena Petrovna Ivanova after the fall of Nazi Germany, 1945

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General Eisenhower with a German over-under combination rifle/shotgun with a scope, General Omar Bradley looks on, Europe, WW2, 1945

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Ukrainian people in the Podolia region, what-is-now Ukraine, ~1895

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Man with a model of the Queen Mary, Canada?, ~1939

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JFK with an AR-15, and General Clifton with a CIA-designed crossbow, USA, 1963

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Ship on the Thames, London, UK, ~1880

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First taxi in Nazareth, British Mandate of Palestine, ~1928

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File clerks at elevator desks in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1937

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IJN sailors from the armoured cruiser Ibuki in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, WW1, ~1914.

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Calamity Jane, famous figure of the American West, ~1880

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13 year-old Princess Yvonne of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn and her brother, Prince Alexander, enjoying some royal luxuries, Germany, 1955

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US soldier with a 'Pederson Device' to convert his bolt-action rifle into a semiautomatic, developed for WW1, 1918?

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Mother reading comics with her children on a balcony, Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine, ~1930?

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Able Seacat Gulpers of the British Navy onboard the HMS Barfleur, WW2, ~1943

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Inuit girl entering an igloo, Nunavut, Canada, ~1950

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A mother peeling potatoes on her balcony during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Beirut, 1982

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Then-Senator (later President) Harry S. Truman being 'held up' with his own guns, USA, 1938

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Pasta drying, Italy, 1929

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Riot during The Troubles, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1971

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Dr. Simona Kossak (floor), Polish ecologist, with some of her pets, including a tame boar, on the bed, 1980s?

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Room of a young girl in Cairo, Egypt, 1970

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Tramway opening ceremony, Dartford, UK, 1906

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Soviet and American soldier share a 'socialist fraternal kiss' after the end of WW2, Germany, 1945

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African-American cowgirl (Nellie Brown?), western USA, ~1880s

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People trying out this newfangled 'Coca-Cola' stuff, France, 1950

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National Army troops on a ship, Irish Civil War, 1923

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Election day at Chistlehurst, London, the UK, 1910

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Machine gunner with a Schwarzlose M.07/12 from the Armed Forces of Austria-Hungary, somewhere in the Dolomite Alps, 1917.

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Jaffa market, British Mandate of Palestine, 1920s

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Dutch airline stewardess with an AR-10 for defense against polar bears in case of an arctic crash, 1958

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Robert E. Howard (right), author of the Conan the Barbarian stories, Texas, USA, 1930s

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Adeyemi I Alowolodu, King of Oyo, Nigeria, around 1900 AD

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Two students performing in a sports ceremony at Birzeit College, Palestine, 1970s

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French man tries Coca-Cola for the first time, 1950

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Best legs contest (the cigar-smoker won), The Carol Burnett Show, 1968

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Gamekeeper and apprehended poacher, Bedfordshire, UK, 1854

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Women in Palestine grinding grain, ~1924?

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Ship's cat 'Convoy' asleep in a hammock onboard a British military ship, WW2, 1941

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Boatmen 'legging' through a canal tunnel, a common technique in longer passages with unmotorized vessels, 1961, UK

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Palestinians from Bethlehem journeying to Jerusalem, ~1919?

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Guests at a same-sex wedding in the early Soviet Union, 1921

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Legendary artist Frida Kahlo being casually dismissed in contemporary American newspaper headline, 1933

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One must imagine a French philosopher happy - Albert Camus dancing, 1950s?

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Snowy day in Cumberland, Appalachia, USA, ~1910

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Austro-Hungarian troops in a trench on the Eastern Front, WW1, 1915

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Port in Jaffa, British Mandate of Palestine, ~1930

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Man standing on a statue of Ramses II, Egypt, ~1856

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Ukrainians holding a picture of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko during the German occupation, Kyiv, WW1, 1918

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Miners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921

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The noble pug-dog, Ireland, ~1900

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Ruth Lee, a Chinese-American woman, flying the flag of China while at the beach to avoid being mistaken for Japanese, Miami, USA, WW2, December 15, 1941

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Important skills for the modern gal, London, UK, 1901

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High-class Yomut women, Turkmenistan, ~1883

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General Union of Palestinian Women, 1990s?

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Afghan guerillas during the Soviet War in Afghanistan, 1980

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Haifa Train Station after an attack by a Zionist terrorist org (Irgun?), British Mandate of Palestine, 1946

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Jazz legend Nat King Cole and itinerant songwriter George Alexander Aberle, USA, late 1940s

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Gustaf Håkansson, the 'Steel Grandpa', in a 1764 kilometer-long bicycle race at 66 years old, Sweden, 1951

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Austro-Hungarian troops crossing the Bug River, near modern-day Ukraine and Poland, WW1, 1915

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Ahmet Ali Celikten, one of the first Black fighter pilots, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, WW1, possibly 1914 or 1915?

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The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire feeding her chickens, Chatsworth, UK, 1995

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Early self-portrait, USA, 1839

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Beach in Jaffa, Palestine, ~1900?

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Yuri Knorozov, Soviet linguist who was instrumental in decoding Mayan script, holding his co-author, Asya, 1980s?

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Big Bertha, world's oldest cow at the time, raised $75,000 for cancer charities, 1992

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Ahmad Shah Massoud, anti-Taliban Afghan guerilla leader, assassinated by the Taliban in 2001, picture taken in 1990

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Comandante William Morgan and Olga María Rodríguez Farinas, anti-Batista revolutionaries in support of Fidel Castro, Cuba, ~1958

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Chairman Mao (left) with the genocidal Khmer Rouge leaders Pol Pot (center) and Ieng Sary, Beijing, China, 1975

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Woman drinking from a community water pump, Chicago, USA, ~1899

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Two women showing their legs in public (very modern!), Toronto, Canada, 1937

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Katherine Switzer, first registered woman to complete the Boston Marathon, with her fellow runners interfering with an official's attempt to remove her bib number, USA, 1967

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