Mont Saint-Michel under the snow, France
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History
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Big Bear Solar Observatory, California
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Buzludzha, Bulgaria
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The Monument House of the Bulgarian Communist Party (also known as the Buzludzha Monument) was built on Buzludzha Peak in central Bulgaria by the Bulgarian government between 1971 and 1981. It commemorated the events of 1891, […]
Child labour, Pennsylvania, 1910
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Grimy young boys pause in their work at the Pennsylvania Coal Company’s mine in South Pittston, PA, USA. Many of these boys are no more than 10 years old, and […]
Le Baiser de l’hôtel de ville, Paris, 1950
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French photographer Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) was walking in Paris when he saw aspiring actors Françoise Delbart (age 20) and Jacques Carteaud (age 23) kissing. He proposed to the charming young […]
Lunch atop a Skyscraper, New York, 1932
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Published in the New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 2 1932. Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a photograph taken atop the steelwork of 30 Rockefeller […]
Reenactment
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American soldiers, World War II
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Concorde at Mach 2
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Water demonstration
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Battle of Ypres
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Soldiers of an Australian 4th Division field artillery brigade on a duckboard track passing through Chateau Wood, near Hooge in the Ypres salient, 29 October 1917. The leading soldier is Gunner James Fulton and […]
Burning Man 2013
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Hindenburg Disaster, Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1937
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The giant airship Hindenburg made history with its first transatlantic flight in May of 1936. Nearly the size of the Titanic, it was the largest airship ever built and a crowning […]
Oyster beds, Marennes, France
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Pyramids of Giza, Cairo, Egypt
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Rostropovich, Berlin Wall, November 10, 1989
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A Brother helping his sister
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Paris flooding, 1910
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Rue de Lyon, Paris, France, 1910. Photo: Albert Chevojon
Statue of Liberty construction, Paris, France
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On October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was inaugurated in New York, USA, in the presence of the then President, Grover Cleveland, former governor of New York, in front […]
The Beatles, Abbey Road
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On August 8, 1969, The Beatles were on a photoshoot for their eleventh studio album named Abbey Road.
Patty Hearst
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Two Bullets, Battle of Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire, 1916
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Thích Quảng Đức self-immolation, Saigon, Vietnam, 1963
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St Michael’s Mount, UK
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
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George Spinney with his Bulldog, Crystal Palace, 1926
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John Lennon snorting Coke
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Hitler last picture
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Grand Central Terminal, New York, 1941
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The sun can’t shine through like that now due to the surrounding tall skyscrapers.
Notre-Dame de Paris in fire
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Guernica, Picasso, 1937
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Painted May 1st-June 4th, Paris, France Oil on canvas 349,3 x 776,6 cm Location: Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain The government of the Spanish Republic acquired the mural “Guernica” from […]
Train wreck at Montparnasse, Paris, 1895
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The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for […]
View from the Window at Le Gras, Nicéphore Niépce, 1827
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View from the Window at Le Gras (french: Point de vue du Gras) is the first successful permanent photograph created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827, in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. Captured on 20×25 cm oil-treated […]
Protester in Tehran, Iran
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Mont Saint-Michel under the Moon, France
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Vimy, France
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Breaking the rules
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Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
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Federico García Lorca execution, 1936
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The Spanish poet Federico García Lorca was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War the 19 August 1936, at the age of 38. Here is […]
Abandoned dogs on the summer road, France
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Mada’in Saleh, Saudi Arabia
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Marina Ginestà, Barcelona, 1936
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Marina Ginestà i Coloma (29 January 1919, Toulouse, France – 6 January 2014, Paris, France) was a French-born Spanish veteran of the Spanish Civil War, who was a member of […]
Mandela Day
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La Liberté guidant le peuple
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Tank Man, Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing, June 1989
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Hector Petersen, Soweto
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Baby bear Dasha on the way to Prague
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Alan Kurdi
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Alan Kurdi was a three-year-old Syrian boy of Kurdish ethnic background whose image made global headlines after he drowned on 2 September 2015 in the Mediterranean Sea. He and his family were Syrian refugees trying to reach Europe amid […]
Car Attack, Charlottesville
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Breaker boys working in a coal mine, South Pittston, Pennsylvania
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The Lewis Hine’s photographs of children at work helped fight child labor.
Migrant Mother
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In fire
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World Press Photo of the Year. José Víctor Salazar Balza (28) catches fire amid violent clashes with riot police during a protest against in Caracas, Venezuela.
Martin Luther King’s Assassination
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Wreck of plane, Sólheimasandur, Iceland
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Nuclear Weapons Test
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Noir c’est noir
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Anne Frank, 1941
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Mao Zedong Statue, Wuhan, China, 1971
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Hitler declaring war on America, Berlin, Germany, 1941
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Moment of Death
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Daniel Cohn-Bendit, May 68, France
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Balzac, by Rodin
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Road Accident in Boston
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First Tour de France final victory trophy, 1903
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Che Guevara dead body, Bolivia
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B-17 shot down, Germany, 1945
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Shibam, Manhattan of the Desert
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Yemen’s old walled city of Shibam is the oldest metropolis in the world to use vertical construction with mud (until 8 floors!).
Starving Child and Vulture
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Brooklyn Bridge Painters, New York
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Aboriginal Slaves, Australia, 1900
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Yosemite, California, 1865
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Yalta Conference, February 1945
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Solar Eclipse from Mount Santa Lucia, 1889
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Portrait of an Ojibway
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Irish guard fall, London, 1966
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US Air Forces abandoned base Bluie East Two polluting Greenland
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Kitten walking across a water lily pad
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Titanic under construction
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USS George Washington Strike Group
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Sadie Pfeifer working in Lancaster Cotton Mills, 1908, South Carolina
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Omaha Beach, D-Day landing
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Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes suspected Viet Cong member Nguyen Van Lem
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South Vietnam National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes suspected Viet Cong member Nguyen Van Lem, on the second day of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War.
The Eiffel Tower Painter
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Young girl with flower
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Napalm Girl, Vietnam
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Mont Saint-Michel, France
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Che Guevara, Guerrillero Heroico
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Afghan Girl
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Oak Alley Plantation, Louisiana
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