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The gate through which the Goths of Alaric stormed and sacked Rome in 410. Porta Salaria, 1870, just before being demolished. (640x500)
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Construction workers from Camp Livingston hanging out
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Rooftop Koreans - April 1992. Any other famous pics like this come to mind? [1250x703]
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Thought maybe you guys were getting tired of hot celebs. Here’s my dad and his buddy as mail carriers in Michigan in the early 70s
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Len Bias is selected second overall by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA draft. His shocking overdose death just two days later highlighted the nation’s growing crack cocaine epidemic and inflamed the war on drugs. June 17, 1986 [1200x720]
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The body of Lord Mountbatten is brought to shore after his assassination. He was pulled alive from the water by nearby fishermen but died from his injuries before being brought to shore, Mullaghmore, Ireland, August 27, 1979 [1600 x 898].
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January 1941 - Foggy night in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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21-years old Yves Saint Laurent at Christian Dior's funeral, 1957 (1440×1800)
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Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1865 (1986x3290)
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Swing You Sinners! (1930) (hand-colorized)
https://youtu.be/DxMq-DsGM48?si=glzJcrDR3i-v9Nf0
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"The Fourth Term" Cartoon of Franklin Roosevelt (by Leo Roche), 1939
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A homeless man in the Warsaw Ghetto, German occupied Poland, 1941 (702x1050)
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Mum and Dad on their wedding day 1991. Happy 34 years today.
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Park Young-in (Japanese name: Kuni Masami) was a professional dancer who was part of a small community of Koreans in Nazi Berlin (1938, right). His grandson is Fred Arminsen [1068x1344]
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Jewish survivors of the Hebron Massacre. Happened today, Aug 24 in 1929 [1600x1066]
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Polish school teacher, Wladyslaw Bielinski moments before his execution (1939). In the first months of WWII, the Third Reich attempted to wipe out Poland's intellectual class, executing 60,000 people. They knew the "intellectual elite" would stop the regime from seizing complete control [1200x525]
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Ted Bundy and his then-girlfriend, Liz, in Flaming George Utah, 1975. He had killed 13 women until that point. Before his execution in 1989 he confessed to 30 murders.
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President Bill Clinton and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat opening Gaza international airport in Rafah (1999) [1400x947]
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23-year-old woman walked onto the courts of the U.S. Nationals (today’s U.S. Open) and changed tennis forever. Her name is Althea Gibson. 1950 [973x1047]
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The “Revenge Dress.” Princess Diana stuns in black during her husband the Prince of Wales’s public admission of infidelity. Kensington Gardens, London. June 29, 1994 [1859x1396]
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A member of the Hitler Youth renaming Tomáš Masaryk Street (founder of Czechoslovakia) to Adolf Hitler Street after the German annexation of the Sudetenland, October 1938 (1834x2600)
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"For Peaceful Cooperation in Space" Soviet poster, 1986.
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'The Point' by Larry Selman; One of the most daring episodes of D-Day was the scaling of the heights at Pointe Du Hoc by the U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion.
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Cheryl Ladd in early 80s
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Richard Nixon’s last lunch as president: pineapple, cottage cheese, and a glass of milk. That evening, he announced his intent to resign on national television. August 8, 1974 [3000x2018]
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Landing ships putting cargo ashore in Normandy during the early days of the Battle of Normandy. (1944) [2048×1481]
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SS troops loot winter boots from killed American soldiers during the Ardennes Offensive, December 1944 [1456x1026]
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Lota Cheek, winner of a NYC beauty contest in 1922
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