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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

Fidel Castro playing basketball in Bulgaria, 1972

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Fidel Castro playing basketball in Bulgaria, 1972

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

Travelers and their camels, China, 19th century

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Travelers and their camels, China, 19th century

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

Endurance athlete Victoria Seddon, ~1910?

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Endurance athlete Victoria Seddon, ~1910?

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

Daguerrotype of American troops invading Mexico, Mexican-American War, 1847

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Daguerrotype of American troops invading Mexico, Mexican-American War, 1847

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

Men of the Harlem Hellfighters decorated with the Croix de guerre by France in WW1 for valor in battle, photo taken postwar, 1919

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Men of the Harlem Hellfighters decorated with the Croix de guerre by France in WW1 for valor in battle, photo taken postwar, 1919

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

A boy enjoys his ice cream atop a washed-ashore sea mine, Kent, UK, WW2, 1940

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A boy enjoys his ice cream atop a washed-ashore sea mine, Kent, UK, WW2, 1940

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

Union troops during the Grand Review of the Armies, Washington DC, end of the US Civil War, 1865

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Union troops during the Grand Review of the Armies, Washington DC, end of the US Civil War, 1865

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

Phyllis Stalnaker, "weedhead, tramp", USA, 1944

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Phyllis Stalnaker, "weedhead, tramp", USA, 1944

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

'Exodusters', African-American migrants, waiting for a steamboat to take them west, USA, 1879?

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'Exodusters', African-American migrants, waiting for a steamboat to take them west, USA, 1879?

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

African-American troops taking up firing positions, US Civil War, 1864

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African-American troops taking up firing positions, US Civil War, 1864

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

Palestinian girls playing basketball, 1958

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Palestinian girls playing basketball, 1958

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

Socialist Revolutionaries with their flag, Russia, 1919?

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Socialist Revolutionaries with their flag, Russia, 1919?

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Sigourney Weaver's high school yearbook photo, 1967

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Sigourney Weaver's high school yearbook photo, 1967

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

Anandi Gopal Joshi of India (left), Kei Okami of Japan (center), and Sabat Islambooly of Syria (right), the first women in their countries to obtain a degree in Western medicine, 1886

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Anandi Gopal Joshi of India (left), Kei Okami of Japan (center), and Sabat Islambooly of Syria (right), the first women in their countries to obtain a degree in Western medicine, 1886

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

The wrecked sailing ship 'Chance' with a windmill, New Zealand, 1902

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The wrecked sailing ship 'Chance' with a windmill, New Zealand, 1902

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

Nintendo headquarters, Kyoto, Japan, 1889

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Nintendo headquarters, Kyoto, Japan, 1889

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

Japanese actress Sada Yacco as Ophelia, 1905

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Japanese actress Sada Yacco as Ophelia, 1905

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 3 months ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 4 months ago

President Josip Broz Tito of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia lighting up a Cuban cigar in the Whitehouse, in front of then-US-president Nixon, 1971

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President Josip Broz Tito of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia lighting up a Cuban cigar in the Whitehouse, in front of then-US-president Nixon, 1971

PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish · 4 months ago

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Scrubbing down the neighborhood (Baltimore, 1950s)

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Scrubbing down the neighborhood (Baltimore, 1950s)

The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Last of the Teddy Girls, 1955

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Last of the Teddy Girls, 1955

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

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