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Earliest known photograph of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, 1844. (800x630)

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Portrait of man named John Bour with a cat in one hand a bottle of Raleigh Rye whiskey in the other, c. 1907. [1098x1495]

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View of the DN-1, the Navy’s first airship, at Naval Aeronautic Station Pensacola on November 7, 1917. [800 × 599]

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Deciding where to put Moscow's monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1956 [736x465]

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Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA on this day, 65 years ago. [2045 × 2048]

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War veteran who sells pencils, Omaha, Nebraska Nov. 1938 [2736x4096] (colorised by me)

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February 24, 1955: Marlon Brando wins the Golden Globe for Best Drama Actor for "On The Waterfront" [2400x1867]

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PFC Joseph E. Day holding a puppy named "Invasion" in a German helmet, Normandy, France, July 14, 1944. [2480 × 3127]

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The aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, Darwin, Australia, Dec 26, 1974 [1280x720]

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The Gate to Dachau Concentration Camp, with its slogan “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work sets you free”). 1945. [1200 x 880]

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Armand Cesari Stadium disaster (5/5/92), a child in tears on the scene of the tragedy. [600x600]

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A young girl playing near a barbed wire fence along the border Wall between East and West Berlin - 1963 [1015 x 704]

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Indignation Meeting in Bloomington after Lincoln's Assassination, Illinois, 1865 [4200 x 3037]

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President Eisenhower manning the grill with former President Hoover in Fraser, Colorado. September 2, 1954. [2000 x 2535]

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President Truman, wearing a shirt that reads 'Coach Truman, Athletic Department', leads exercises on the deck of the USS Missouri on his return trip to Washington from Brazil, 1947. [1260 x 990]

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Jagdpanzer IV/70(A) tank destroyer knocked out in the ruins of Mittelwihr in France - 1945 [1200x1100]

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Police Surveying the Damage in the Burnt-Out Reichstag Plenary Chamber, 27th February 1933 [2300 x 1488]

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Seventh- and eighth-grade students watch a course televised through MPATI (Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction). The initiative used a Purdue-owned aircraft to broadcast videotaped courses from fall 1961 until 1968. [2400 x 1403]

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President Lyndon Johnson shaking the hand of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. after the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. [960 x 746]

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Eyeglasses of victims from Auschwitz. 1945 [784 x 520]

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Photo of Myles Byrne a rebel leader in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and later chef de bataillon of Napoleon’s Irish Legion during the Napoleonic wars. Paris, 1853. [423 x 603]

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, June 28, 1914 [1000 x 681]

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Yugoslav partisan Stjepan Filipović, moments before he was hanged by the Germans in Valjevo, Serbia on May 27th 1942. Aged 26. [607 x 960]

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Members of Canadian parliament contemplate over a thousand submitted designs for the first national flag of Canada, 1964 [1024 x 697]

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German soldiers round up the last Greek Jews in Ioannina for deportation. March 25th, 1944. [3348 × 2092]

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A disabled veteran and his son gaze at the Golden Gate Bridge from Baker Beach, 1959. [2228x2934] (colorised by me)

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Children in Alsace, France, wearing their gas masks [ 2000 × 1489 ] February 1918

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The First Ever Underground Train Journey, Edgware Road Station, London, 1862 [1747 × 1080]

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Edward, Prince of Wales (1840–1910), later King Edward VII, stands over the carcass of a wild Chillingham bull,[1000x764]

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Neil Armstrong gives a thumbs up as he leads the Apollo 11 astronauts. [620 × 350]

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Dorothy Counts was admitted to the Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1957, but her parents pulled her out four days later after relentless harassment from the other students. [923x600]

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King of the Belgians Parading Through The Streets of Léopoldville, Belgian Congo, 1960 [2550 x 1710]

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Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Group at Foller's Farm with freed slaves (stereograph by James F. Gibson, 1862) [1460x1400]

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Hitler Youths receive a formal welcome at Hove railway station, Sussex, Great Britian July 1936 [460 x 307]

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Adolf Hitler during a speech at a Nuremburg rally, 14 September 1936 [586×800]

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Dr. Walter Freeman performing a prefrontal lobotomy using an instrument similar to an ice pick that he invented for the procedure, July 11, 1949 [686x385]

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Street fights between government troops and revolutionary guards in Berlin, in September 1919. [4818 × 3581]

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Kurt Russell kicking Elvis Presley in the shin 1963 (300 x 415)

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The Empire State Building as seen from New Jersey in 1941... photo by Andreas Feininger [530 × 780]

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Robert Moog making final adjustments to the Moog Synthesizer prior to a jazz concert at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1969. Two quartets played four Moogs during the hour and a half long concert in the Museum’s open air sculpture garden. [1200 x 1200]

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In 1935 Kay Petre took the ladies land speed record at 134.75 mph in the 1924 Delage, a 10.5 litre V12-engine Land Speed Record car she had been racing against the men. Due to her size, Kay needed large wooden blocks strapped to the pedals to allow her to operate them. [1600 x 1105]

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These huge piles of aluminum pots and pans were contributed by English housewives to be melted down into metal for British fighting planes. Workers are sorting the material,, 1940. [1000x683]

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A German soldier looking at the burning port of Rouen from the other side of the Seine, France, 1940 [640 x 459]

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A wig maker in Los Angeles, California 1954 [736x736]

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My grand uncle Bunce (front and center), Meuse-Argonne Offensive. October 1918 [OS] [1125x800]

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Nazareth, Palestine 1870s [6691 × 5301] 6k detail

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President Richard Nixon at a White House dinner in honour of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. April 1970 [228 x 221]

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U.S. Navy N-9 Trainer pictured during a training flight near NAS Pensacola. Note the tower radiator visible forward of the upper wing. Arriving at NAS Pensacola in December 1918, this particular aircraft was damaged on three occasions and repaired before it spun into the water in 1921. [2100 × 1562]

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#vintage #U.S. Navy N-9 Trainer pictured during a training flight near NAS Pensacola. Note the tower radiator visible forward of the upper wing. Arriving at NAS Pensacola in December 1918, this particular aircraft was damaged on three occasions and repaired before it spun into the water in 1921. [2100 × 1562] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot http://ift.tt/2sTrIWS

U.S. Marines in Vietnam by Paul Schutzer 1965 (1000 x 645)

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St. Mark’s Square during the 1966 Venice flood [1200 x 800]

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