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Statue of David was bricked inside this cone to protect it from bombs during WW2 [739x1029]
U.S. & Soviet Troops at Spandau Prison in Berlin, where Top Nazi War Criminals were held after the War. Rudolf Hess resided there until his death in 1987, 1980s [1500x1138]
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George T. Downing, (centre) with family and friends. A civil rights activist, he helped desegregate the schools in Newport, Rhode Island. 1866. [1192 x 987].
A young Turkish boy raises up a hammer during a solidarity rally for the 42,000 miners on strike in the Zonguldak coal fields, November 1990. [587x884]
Jimi hendrix burning his guitar during the Monterey Music Festival (1967) [492x505]
Titanic victims being buried at sea. The image was taken on the Cable Ship Mackay Bennett on 24 April 1912, nine days after the Titanic sank. 1912. [1080x656]
Arnold Schwarzeneggers first time in New York, 1968 [660x799]
Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, by Fred Ramage, 1945 [702 × 1000]
On August 8, 1982, a line drive foul ball hit a 4 year old boy in the head at Fenway Park. Jim Rice, realizing that it would take EMTs too long to arrive and cut through the crowd, scooped up the boy and got him to the dugout where the Red Sox medical team gave him life-saving first aid. [515x640]
World War I veteran (1932) [793X1024]
2 year-old Elvis Presley with his parents, 1937. (640x800) (colorized) Original in the comments.
Léo Major, Le Fantom Borgne, or the One Eyed Ghost. After a phosphorous grenade burned out his eye, he made some jokes about looking like a pirate and returned to the front lines as a sniper before single-handedly liberating the Dutch town of Zwolle. 1943 [596x464]
Ivan Yegorov, the coachman of Leo Tolstoy, and young pioneers in 1954. [587x910]
Judy Garland with her two children, Lorna and Joey Luft. Possibly early 1960’s. [749 x 1142]
Margaret Trudeau, Pat Nixon, and four month old Justin Trudeau in the White House - April 1971 [1600x1342]
Today's saint, the Martyr of Auschwitz, Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Catholic priest who offered to take the place of another prisoner set to be executed. After surviving 2 weeks of forced starvation, he was executed on the eve of the Solemnity of Mary's Assumption into Heaven (c. 1939) [1086x1600]
Demonstrations against Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie. On the placard is written "A nation that yields to tyrants will lose more than body and goods - the light goes out." Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 5, 1989. [3745x2493]
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The "Lange Anna" ("Tall Anna"), a 47m high stack of sandstone in the North Sea, Heligoland. It's subject to steady weathering wear and decomposition and it's collapse is considered inevitable. 1890-1905. [1000x710]
Légionnaire of the 1er REC (foreign cavalry, "Royal Étranger") posing with his FAMAS, bayonet at the ready, in Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield, shortly before the invasion of Iraq, 1991. [411x612]
Laika, a mixed-breed dog, was the first living being in orbit. She was launched on the Soviet Union's Sputnik 2 mission in November 1957. [3647x2051]
A New Zealand tank crew chats with Yugoslav Partisans in the Italian city of Trieste, c. May 1945. [940x619]
Queen Wilhelmine of the Netherlands (1880-1962), talks with a soldier of the new Dutch army. She just returned to her country after five years of exile in Great Britain. Maastricht (Maestricht), Netherlands, Spring 1945. [1275x1275]
Family of a Somalian traditional doctor - 1930s [200x300]
Youth worker playing with the children of the Gorbals, Glasgow, 1966 [1373x1227]
Mongolian girl as photographed by Dutch mission - 1920s [250x360]
