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Roger Connor was the first ever player to hit a grand slam in MLB and his 138 home run career record stod for 23 years after his retirement in 1897. [360x640]
Einstein at the age of three in 1882 [414x600]
A Battleship Battle Group underway in the Western Pacific, c. 1986. From L to R: USS Long Beach (CGN 9), USS Thach (FFG 43), USS Wabash (AOR 5), USS New Jersey (BB 62), USS Gray (FF 1056) & USS Merrill (DD 976) [3000x1974]
U.S. military personnel and women having a Halloween party in Florida (October 25, 1943) [600 x 420]
On this day in 1992, a 27-pound (12.37 kg) meteorite hit Michelle Knapp's newly-purchased $300 1980 Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. She sold the car to a meteorite collector and dealer for $25,000. The car is on display in Paris today. [1024X768]
A blind Muslim named Muhammad carrying his best friend a paralyzed Christian who suffers from dwarfism named Samir, Damascus, Ottoman Syria, 1889. [1080x1350]
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Unidentified soldier of the First AIF. Most likely taken in Australia, pre-embarkation sometime between 1915 and 1918. [1848x3000] Coloured by Me
Members of the Grape Street Crips stage a mock execution by taking a neighborhood pre-schooler who happened to wear a red T-shirt and pointing their shotguns at him. January 1st, 1988. Watts, Los Angeles, California. Photo by Axel Koester. (612x405)
A fisherman aims his spear at the Blue Lagoon on the Yasawa Islands (Fiji 1965) [2048x1364]
Typical outhouse, probably from the Great Depression, circa 1935, Cincinnati, Ohio. (1237x1867)
A boat race takes place in Mandalay, Burma, photographed during a tour by England's Prince of Wales, 1922.[1500 x 1046]
Scholz Garden, Austin TX, bartender, chef, and waiters, c. 1900 [1448x1070]
Born in Japan, 1751 and died in July 7, 1977 at a grand old age of 226, koi Hanako was the oldest koi fish ever recorded. [1284 x 894]
Niagara Splash Waterpark. (now demolished) April 14th, 1998. The Beach Boys sang the jingle for the commercial. Niagara Falls NY. (1280x884)
Japan’s first Diplomatic mission to the United States (1860). Its objective was to ratify the new Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between the United States and Japan, in addition to being Japan's first diplomatic mission to the United States since the 1854 opening of Japan. [700x577]
The Magaddino Funeral Chapel. "you Kill em' we chill em'!" Infamous for its rumored "double coffins". It's still there if you want to get a photo next to it. 1338 Niagara Street, Niagara Falls NY (unknown date) (1200x711)
A rescue dog is transported out of the destroyed World Trade Center, September, 2001. (700x940)
American marines holding up a Japanese patrol trying to enter the International Settlement of Shanghai, 1930s [1374x818]
Sacheen Littlefeather with local farmers fighting against extension of the military base on their lands. Larzac, Occitanie, France. March 1973 [1866x2941]
Pavlov's house in Stalingrad, Russia, late 1942 [1024x668]
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A Jewish man injured during the pogrom convaleces in a hospital, Salonica, Greece between June and July 1931 [1722x1200]
Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe surveys the damage after a bomb planted by South African commandos exploded in an office used by the African National Congress. Harare, 1986 [800 x 1200]
Eskimo man wearing gut parka holding string of fish, Nome, Alaska, between 1898 and 1900 [493x610]
A wounded US Sgt. Ken Kozakiewicz (left) grieves as he learns that the body bag next to wounded Cpl. Michael Tsangarakis contains the remains of his friend Andy Alaniz. February, 1991. [1024x693]
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A group of skinheads walk past a group of hippies. Piccadilly Circus, London, 1969. [891x594]
Easy Company captain Lewis Nixon (from Band of Brothers) poses after drinking liquor taken from Nazi military leader Hermann Göring's house the morning after V-E Day, 1945. [750 x 549].
A married couple protesting in Ellis Island against the Jewish husband's deportation back to Germany, 1936 [1288x1401]
Members of the Magaddino Crime Family. (unknown date) Either The Como Restaurant or the Cristoforo Colombo Society. Either way it's somewhere on Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls NY. (2048x1483)
A blind musician called "Goze" in old Japan. Independent women with their own organization, recognized by the government. They were mostly itinerant and employed especially in pleasure quarters where clients could ask them to perform various popular songs. Late Meiji Era in 1903 [1215x1802]
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The filming of the movie "Canadian Bacon" starring Dan Akroyd and John Candy. November 1993. (exact date unknown) Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario, Canada. (1037x960)
Prince Harry wears a Thomas the Tank Engine tee-shirt when he leaves nursery school with his mother Diana, Princess of Wales (London, England 1989) [1323x2048]
Portrait of a stage actor in costume. China, early 1900s [1155x1720]
French soldiers parade through the ruins of Berlin, 1946 (800x528)
Chinese jingal team during the Six Day War of Hong Kong (新界六日戰), 1899. [1024 x 760]
Mendicant priest in Hong Kong, 1874. Photographed by John Thomson, the priest poses in front of Guanyin Temple. [1226 x 1400]
Three radical icons of the sixties. Encounter between Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Cuba, in 1960. [499 x 272]
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Langley (CV-1) under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, 1934.[1892 × 1520]
Morning Prayers. Gorbals Primary School, Glasgow, 1943. [844x600]
Bakery inside an armored train of Czechoslovak legion somewhere in Trans-Siberian Railway during Russial civil war, photo could be from 1917 - 1920 [1023 × 733]
Elizabeth Taylor napping against James Dean behind the scenes of "Giant". 1955 [1,600 x 1,066]
Striking workers raise a red flag in Glasgow, 1919. Fears of a 'Bolshevist Uprising' resulted in a violent crackdown, causing the day to be known as "The Battle of George Square" or "Bloody Friday". [976x549]
Newborn Elizabeth Taylor in the arms of her mother, Sara. March 1932. [659 x 805]
Aleutian American family in a U.S. internment camp, 1940s [500x365]
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Protesters in Tehran on Intenational Women's Day, 1979. [1600x2400]
Crimean War, 1855: Photographer Roger Fenton took this picture of his mobile darkroom in the war zone. (626x535)
Women in fire masks, Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London, UK 1941. COLOURISED [1464x1469]
The body of a Viet Cong soldier is dragged behind an American armored vehicle en route to a burial site after the Battle of Suoi Bong Trang during the Vietnam War. February, 1966. [700x1045]
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Irish revolutionary Micheal Collins Infront of his house burnt by the Black and Tans during the Irish war of independence 1921 (770:1027)
Blondi was Adolf Hitler’s German Shepherd, a gift as a puppy from Martin Bormann in 1941. Hitler would later test one of his cyanide capsules on her to make sure they worked. [460x666]
Three children drawing, on panels, Japan, 1909 [1,536×1,097]