John Lennon photographed 1 year apart.(1966 and 1967).

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A train station along the route of the Simplon-Orient Express, 1950.

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Bulgarian civilians greeting German infantry near Sofia, Bulgaria, c. 1941.

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Viet Cong soldier standing with an AK-47, February 1973.

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The explosion from the first thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb), code-named Mike, which was detonated at Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands, November 1, 1952. The photograph was taken at an altitude of 3,600 metres (12,000 feet) 80 km (50 miles) from the detonation site.

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German infantrymen operating a machine gun during World War I.

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PragueCzechoslovaks confronting Soviet troops in Prague, August 21, 1968. Soviet forces had invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the reform movement known as the Prague Spring.

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GorbachevU.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan (left) talking with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow, 1988.

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Children watching a U.S. cargo plane landing at Tempelhof Airfield in Berlin, 1948.

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On November 3, 1957, the USSR launched the artificial satellite “Sputnik 2” with the first living creature on board—a dog named Laika. The goal of the mission was to prove that life could exist in weightless conditions.

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King Charles III (then Prince Charles) during the celebrations in Rio, 1978

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Bulgarian King Ferdinand I in Cairo, 1933.

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Dolly Parton, ca. 1966

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Howard Carter (1873-1939), seated beside coffin of King Tutankhamen, removing the consecration oils which covered the third or innermost coffin, 1926.

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LOCH NESS MONSTER, said to be the head & neck of Nessie. This famous photo was taken in 1934 by a vacationing London surgeon, Robert K. Wilson, in Loch Ness, Scotland. Featured in the 1976 film, Mysterious Monsters.

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Queen Elizabeth II, coronation portrait, June 2, 1953

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Donald Trump with Michael Jackson at Trump Taj Mahal opening, 1990

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Michael Douglas and Donald Trump, 1988

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Dolph Lundgren and Magic Johnson, 1988

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Guy Mountfort using parabolic reflector for sound recording birds in Bulgaria 1960.

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Sept. 1, 1939 headlines about the German invasion of Poland, Americans gather to read about the event that triggered World War 2. Washington, D.C.

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Yugoslav leader Marshal Tito (1892 - 1980) speaking during his visit to Russia under portrait of Lenin, Moscow, 1956.

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Cars parking at drive-in movie theatre in Chicago, Illinois, 1951.

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Silhouette of the Empire State Building and other buildings without surrounding light from the usual street lights during wartime dimout to conserve energy cost in New York City, United States February 1943

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Wounded Marine Gunnery Sergeant Jeremiah Purdie is led past stricken comrades after fierce firefight for control of Hill 484, south of DMZ in South Vietnam, 1966.

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The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service started on Monday the 2nd of November 1936. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

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On Nov.2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signs a bill in the White House Rose Garden designating a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., to be observed on the third Monday of January.

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