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Alfred Hitchcock serving tea to Leo, the MGM lion. 1957

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Actual photo of passengers leaving the Titanic, while a priest prays for the first victims who are stacked on one side.

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The first airplane flight in history. Orville Wright flew for 9 minutes and 45 seconds in 1911.

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League of German women dancing in Nuremberg 1938

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Mohamed Alí versus Cleveland Williams,

1966

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A woman condemned to die of hunger, Mongolia 1913

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Last known

photo of Samurai in Japan. By then

most had

already cut their

hair 1868

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The marriage of Mr. Stephen Hawking 1965

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Nagasaki atomic bomb, transported to the plane, 1945

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Execution of Polish prisoners by the Germans 1942

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Natives carrying a Rolls Royce in Nepal 1950

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A London policeman gives street directions address \to women of

Burma 1935

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Dead Nazi soldiers after the Battle of Stalingrad 1943

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Amazing photo of Mark Twain in the lab of Nicola Tesla 1894

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USA dropping bombs on Kobe, Japan 1945

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Marriage of Joseph Goebbels. Hitler was his best man and can be seen further back with a hat 1931

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Authentic Samurai 1859

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Nine kings of Europe in the Windsor Castle 1910

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Pyramid made out of captured German helmets in the First World

War - New York, 1918

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Sales and auction of negro slaves 1868

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The California Gold Rush left hundreds of boats from around the globe abandoned in

the port of San Francisco, 1850

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Young Osama Bin Laden in a cave while fighting the invading Soviet forces. Jalalabad region, Afghanistan, 1988

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German prisoners of war marching under the supervision of Soviet soldiers, 1944. The Soviet woman is showing a ’dulya’ (the finger) with her

hand to the Germans as they pass by.

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A miniature, fully functional replica of a Cadillac that was made for the British

Royal family of Siam. 1913

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Titanic in dry dock, 1912. Here you can see the scale of

the person standing next to one of the propellers.

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The headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Fascist party – Rome 1930

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Hindenburg flies over Manhattan in 1936

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Construction of Mount Rushmore 1934-1939

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Folsom Street in San Francisco, after

the great earthquake of 1906

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A distant Kremlin is seen in this 1852 photo of Moscow, Russia

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British rear gunner practicing shooting in a moving model cockpit on rails.

World War I

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Henry Ford's modified Model T, the “Universal Car” – 1918

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German flag athalf mast after

the Hindenburg accident in Washington, D.C. 1937

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Abraham Lincoln's hearse, 1865

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Golden Gate Bridge construction 1937

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Manhattan, New York City. Circa 1908

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Mona Lisa being returned

to its home at the Louvre

in Paris, France after WW2 1945

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NASA before Powerpoint.

Life Magazine

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Niagara Falls during the freeze of 1911. You can see people walking right at the

bottom of the frozen waterfall

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The original Piggly Wiggly Store, Memphis, Tennessee.

The first self service grocery store, opened 1916

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The construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884

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A vending machine that sold cigarettes already lit for a

penny.

England, 1931

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The original sign of Hollywood, 1929

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Douglas MacArthur signing the official acceptance of Japanese surrender - 1945

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The office of Albert Einstein

taken on the day that he died

April 18, 1955

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Adolf Hitler's pants in 1944

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A unique mugshot of young Joseph Stalin 1911

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Last photo of Lenin alive. who by then was completely

voiceless 1923

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Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961

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Times Square in New York, 1911