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Frank Herbert signing copies of Dune, the best-selling Sci-Fi novel of all-time, 1971 [1024 x 683]
Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, King George I of Greece, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, King Frederick VIII of Denmark (all siblings) 1910 [1280 x 1783]
Captured Nazi leaders (L/R) Albert Speer with Admiral Karl Dönitz and Colonel General Alfred Jodl in Flensburg, Germany, May 23, 1945. Speer was subsequently sentenced to 20 years in prison, Donitz to 10 years in prison, and Jodl was hung. [1500x1500]
Drive-in Diners were very popular, this one didn’t require a server on skates. The Motormat drive-in, invented by Kenneth C.Purdy, where the food tray was sent out on rails Los Angeles. The little awnings provide a quaint touch, 1948. [526x526]
Northern Irish loyalist politician Ian Paisley holds up a sign during Pope John Paul II's speech at the European parliament, shouting - "I denounce you, Anti-Christ! I refuse you as Christ's enemy and Antichrist with all your false doctrine!" [11 October 1988 | 650 x 836]
Maria and Georg von Trapp at their 1927 wedding. The story of the former postulant at a Benedictine nunnery and the former Austrian naval officer would become the basis of The Sound of Music. [2108 x 1426]
Wilhelm II and Otto von Bismarck 1888 [1405 x 1198]
General William Westmoreland Reports on the Vietnam War, 1967 [1860 × 1247]
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The mummified head of King Charles XII of Sweden. He was shot in battle by a stray bullet and was taken to Riddarholmen Church, Stockholm, Sweden where he was buried [Date: 1917, 500 x 398]
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The market of Eminou Square and New Mosque Yeni Cami in the Ottoman Empire, with store signs in Ottoman Turkish, Armenian, Greek and French in 1900. [1600X1210]
A BAR man takes aim as another prepares to pull the pin on a grenade, Wana Ridge, Okinawa, 1945. [750x599]
The basement where the Romanov family was killed. The wall had been torn apart in search of bullets and other evidence by investigators in 1919. The double doors leading to a storeroom were locked during the execution. (1280x911)
Nicholas II in the Uniform of the Lifeguard Grenadier Regiment. 1890s (Photo 2000 x 2850) Colored by me.
David Isom, 19, challenging the color barrier in a segregated swimming pool in Florida on June 8, 1958. [1080x1059]
Native porters in New Guinea carrying supplies for the Allies early to mid 1940’s during WWII. To the invaders from Japan, and the occupiers from Australia and the United States, however, many New Guineans appeared as colonial subjects at best, and as slaves at worst. Date unknown. [1400x1400]
A lifeguard on a Tel Aviv beach (Tel Aviv, then Mandatory Palestine between 1934 and 1939) [5118x3628]
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Painting the Eifel Tower, 1932 (880x1217)
World Fair of 1889 in Paris,[2048 × 1636]
An unexploded Russian artillery rocket in the devastated capital city of Grozny. Chechnya, 2000. [896x598]
Light rail trial on K-streets 1987 (631x960)