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Jaques Biederer, the first photographer in history specializing in erotic photos, Paris, 1928. [720x892]

Gabe Newell playing Half-Life in his office in April of 1998, seven months before the game's release. (552x402)

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Mary Anne MacLeod was a poor Scottish immigrant who arrived in America in 1930. She eventually married an up-and-coming businessman named Frederick Trump and became the mother of businessman and future president. Donald Trump. [455 x 454]

Nils Johan Mienna, a boy belonging to the Sámi people, poses for the camera in his traditional costume. Norway, 1977, By Erik Borg for the National Geographic. [960x1427]

[Colorized] J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein, 1947 [678x750]

Six-year-old Austrian boy “Werfel” receiveing a new pair of shoes at the Am Himmel orphanage, donated by the Junior Red Cross in America (colorized). Published in the LIFE Magazine in 1946. (1210x1682)

Cpl. William E. Thomas and Pfc. Joseph Jackson prepare a gift of special “Easter Eggs” for Adolf Hitler and the German Army. Easter Saturday, during the Battle of Remagen, 1945. [917x730] (Colorized, link to original B&W in comments)

Inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861. Lincoln is standing under the wood canopy, at the front, midway between the left and center posts. His face is in shadow but the white shirt front is visible. The 1861 inauguration is believed to be the first ever photographed. (3795x3805)

2 French Mirage 2000s and an American F18 queue behind a French KC-135 for refueling over the Arabian peninsula during Operation Southern Watch, 2rd April 1994 [2450x1627]

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Senator and future President Joe Biden and then President Jimmy Carter, taken on 19 October 1979 (1279x997)

Luh-Sa-Coo-Re-Culla-Ha (Particular Time of Day or Esteemed Sun). Pawnee. Photo by Jackson Brothers Omaha, NE, 1869. [755x934]

Harry Burton's immortal photograph of Tutankamun's second coffin. Taken in 1924. Based on the cornflowers, Tutankhamun died in March or April 1323 BCE. [842x1469]

Mikhail Bulgakov, USSR writer, looking like Jon Hamm from Mad Men, 1935 [900 x 1220]

Colossal statue of King Tutankhamun, restored at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1935. [1200x1570]

Interior view of the Apollo 13 Lunar Module (LM). This photograph shows some of the temporary hose connections and apparatus which were necessary when the three astronauts moved form the Command Module to use the LM as a 'lifeboat' (Apollo 13 Lunar Module 1970) [2299x2321]

John & Yoko in NYC 1972 [1435x2160]

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The view from inside East Berlin's 'Palast der Republik' in 1990. [1826 x 1802]

Mao Zedong and Zhu De posing for a rare portrait taken by photographer Earl Leaf prior to their eventual overthrow of the Nationalist Chinese government in October 1949, circa 1938. [640 × 862]

“Washington’s last soldier” John Gray served in the revolutionary war and lived to his 100s and died in 1868 [1030x1641]

French Marines in Tonkin, 1888 [1288x1539]

Moroccan folk dancers (cheikhat) photographed druning the wedding of one of pasha el glawi sons in marakech , Morocco circa 1939 published in the life magazine [720×706]

Apollo 16 lift-off. 16 April 1972. [1764 × 1400]

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Toppling of Felix Dzerzhinsky monument on Bank Square in Warsaw, Poland. Dzerzhinsky (nicknamed "Bloody Felix"), founder of Cheka and creator of Soviet apparatus of terror, enjoyed little popularity in Poland, despite being Polish-born himself. Poland, 17 November 1989. [952x1024]

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Exterior view of Ayasofya Camii (mosque), formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia, 1880. [1024x816]

Al Pacino. February 1979. [Colorized by me] (1000x1250)

USS Florida (BB-30) at anchor, 1912 (3800x3085)

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One of the only pictures ever taken of Edward VIII's highly secret departure from Windsor, the day after his abdication. En route to Portsmouth, where he would board HMS Fury for Boulogne. [12 December 1936 | 620 x 387]

[Colorized] Portrait of Louis Armstrong, 1938 by Gottlieb. [3634x4880]

The youngest daughters of Tsar Nicholas II with the eldest sisters of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh c.1908 [720x601]

A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M piloted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Shigehisa Yaguchi moments before it crashes into USS Kidd (DD-661) off Okinawa, Japan, 11 April 1945. [2711x2002]

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Italian generals Ettore Baldassarre, Michelangelo Niccolini and Giacomo Lombardi in Lybia (shortly before the Battle of Gazala), 10 March 1942. [1438 x1367]

Lt. John F. Kennedy aboard the PT-109, photographed in 1943. (760x1094)

King Leopold I of Belgium in 1865, the year of his death [500 x 693]

This is Dina Sanichar. Born in 1860 (or 61) Sanichar was a feral child from India. Dubbed "The real-life Mowgli" he went on to live among other humans for over twenty years but never learned to speak and remained seriously impaired his entire life and died of tuberculosis in 1895. (891x679)

Dedication of a sculpture, in Carmel, New York in 1961, of Sybil Ludington, a 16-year-old girl who rode through the Hudson Valley countryside, rallying her father’s troops to battle, in the spring of 1777. [702 x 863].

Tsar Nicholas II in a German Admiral's uniform & Kaiser Wilhelm II in a Russian Admiral's uniform on SMS Deutschland, 5 August 1907 [7353 x 5043]

President Lyndon Baines Johnson playing with his pet beagle 'Him', 1965 [1587 x 2048]

Kids wearing Fidel Castro caps and beards (USA 1959) [2100x1440]

Prisoners liberated at Buchenwald concentration camp, 1945 [1536×1246]

German General Hermann von François (back to the camera) greets Russian General Nikolai Klujev who was taken prisoner after the Battle of Tannenberg 1914 [596 x 843]

Visit of the Emperor to the Austro-Hungarian troops on Eastern front, Khodoriv, Ukraine, 1918 [1600 x 1106]

Canmonpatoankantuya, also known as James High Pipe. Sioux. 1907. Photo by De Lancey W. Gill. [442x600]

Allied officers in Salonica, 1916 [816 x 887]

Slovak invasion of Poland in September 1939 [1280 x 846]

Photo of the execution of Maximilian I (right), and the generals Mejía (left) and Miramón (Middle), June 19th 1867 [1280x890]

Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht at the Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin on 8 May 1945. (3534x2718)

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Aliya Moldagulova, Kazakh WW2 sniper. Died in battle at 18 years old. Fought in hand to hand combat and led troops into battle. (1943) [413 × 594]

Farm in Nurmijärvi, Finland. (1954) [5900 × 5836]

Charles-Louis Du Pin in 1865, brutal leader of the French counter-guerrilla in Mexico, served in 19 campaigns. The Mexicans put 100,000 francs on his head, in vain. Was nicknamed "the monster of the warm lands", "the red devil", "the hyena of Tamaulipas" and "the tiger of the Tropics" [661 × 1056]

Mannequin or bust of Tutankhamun being carried from his tomb, VK 62, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922. The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter (1874-1939) was one of the most astounding discoveries in archaeology. [477x612]

A survivor of the Ebensee concentration camp in Austria following liberation. May 7-8 1945 [787×597]

Funeral procession of two Thai princes, carried on royal chariots on their way to the cremation ceremony. 1880s. [2000x1541]

Damage to the conference room of the Wolfsschanze after the 20/7/1944 plot against Hitler. [800x584]

Activists of the Polish Military Organisation in 1917 (869x558)

Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna, sister-in-law of Nicholas II, in russian court dress - 1890's [500x665]

Red Army troops pass a dead German solider. Stalingrad Dec 1942 [1200×820]

Soviet infantrymen running past a dead German sergeant during the Battle of Berlin. April 1945 [750×639]

German firefighters boys, 1944-45. [640x451]

Grigori Rasputin, here seen with his children in 1917 was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who gained considerable influence in late period of the Russian Empire (521x744)

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In 1912 on April 15 the British luxury passenger liner Titanic sank en route to New York City from Southampton, Hampshire, England, after striking an iceberg during its maiden voyage; some 1,500 people died. Here seen departing from Southampton (1280x941)

Policemen lead Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. out of the courtroom in handcuffs after a jury convicted him of murder in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a perpetrator of the racially motivated 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing in 1963, which killed four young black girls aged 11 to 14, May 1, 2001 (722x513)

Ukrainian woman at work as seen by John Steinbeck during his visit to Kyiv, Ukraine in 1947 [500 x 780]

RMS Titanic at Southampton docks, prior to departure on April 11, 1912. Four days later she would sink on her maiden voyage, 110 years to the day. [3000x3055] (Colorized)

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Shown here is the Titanic on one of its sea trials, which took place on April 2, 1912. Today (April 15, 2022) marks the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. [3200 x 2294]

A young South Vietnamese soldier on leave strolls along the beach at Vung Tau on Feb. 17, 1970 with a young girl. (AP Photo/Mark Godfrey) [1234x1600]

A post mortem photo of Frederick III, the 99 Days Emperor, 1888 [2560 x 2036]