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A couple at Woodstock (48 hours after they met) and the same couple 50 years later.
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"We went to high school together. Snoop Dogg was a year older than me. I remember him, he was very tall and skinny. He wore lots of ponytails. I'm pretty sure I bought weed from him." - Cameron Diaz
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A girl licks ice cream and plays with the tip of the guns bayonet to try and elicit a reaction from a royal guard in Sweden in 1970.
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Mom uses a trash can to contain her baby while she crochets in the park, 1969.
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Rejected designs for the Eiffel Tower
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1980s, inspiration for San Junipero (Black Mirror)
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South Korea, 1990
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African girl in a human zoo, Belgium 1958.
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1956 Ford Thunderbird 2-Door Convertible.
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The hanging of Mary the Elephant, who was publicly executed for killing her handler, 1916.
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Albert Einstein teaching at Lincoln, the United State's first Historical Black University, 1946.
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A couple dividing up their beanie baby collection in divorce court, 1990s
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Baby Leonardo DiCaprio with his mom and dad, 1976.
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In 1922, scientists entered a ward of dying children, all in comatose diabetic ketoacidosis, and injected a new drug (insulin) into them as families were already beginning to grieve. Before they had injected the last person on the ward, the first woke up.
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Nobody dies a virgin, life fucks us all. — Kurt Cobain
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My grandfather lighting himself a cigarette in a double-exposure self-portrait (1950s)
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Looking out the window of Apollo 11, July 1969.
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A tracking shot from the movie Wings (1927) This was the first movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
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Hands Free Telephone Mask, 1960s
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“When I first met Johnny, I was pure virgin. He changed that. He was my first everything. My first real kiss. My first real boyfriend. My first real fiancé. The first guy I had sex with. So he’ll always be in my heart. Forever. Kind of funny that word.”
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“My Uncle getting caught growing weed in the backyard, 1970s.”
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During WWII, Jews in Budapest were brought to the edge of the Danube, ordered to remove their shoes, and shot, falling into the water below. 60 pairs of iron shoes now line the river's bank, a ghostly memorial to the victims.
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Actress Anita Ekberg defending herself from paparazzi with a bow and arrow, 1960.
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The Golden Trio
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“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” Vincent Van Gogh
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Times Square, New Year's Eve, 1937.
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Anti-smoking sign from the 80s
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Prince Philip pranking The Queen by dressing as a Palace Guard.
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Angelina Jolie's teen years slay all of Kardashians.
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I'm blown away by this photo
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In 1974, the legendary pharaoh Ramesses II was issued a valid Egyptian passport so that his 3,000-year-old mummy could be flown to Paris for necessary repair
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A woman who survived atomic bombing of Nagasaki, 1945.
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The wartime selfie, 1940s.
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“You!” – Princess Diana meets comedian Rowan Atkinson in 1984
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An Indian student studying at the University of Madras in Tamil Nadu, 1905. While studying late at night, students use to tie their hairs to a nail in the wall to prevent themselves from falling asleep.
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A Lego letter to parents from 1974.⁣
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A terrace at a café in Capri, Italy, 1949. Photo by Ralph Crane
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Mike Tyson at a house party in 1995.
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Roza Shanina was the deadliest female sniper during WW2. Aged just 19, she had 54 confirmed kills.
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Sometimes little help is all you need, 1945.
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A young boy that had just stolen his father’s car and crashed it, takes one last puff on his cigarette before facing the consequences.
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Joan Jett without her signature black eyeliner, 1976.
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Takeshi Kaneshiro, 90s.
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Kurt Cobain in 1987, 20 years old.
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In 1979, 16 year old Brenda Ann Spencer was arrested after killing two people in California. When asked why she did it, her reply was "I just don't like Mondays."
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Startled bystander at the annual Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, 1994
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Las Vegas police facing Mike Tyson after he'd just bitten Holyfield's ear off (1996)
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A teenage boy giving flowers to Princess Diana with the help of his friends. (1989)
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Elon Musk in the early 90s at college.
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Indian film actor, Irrfan Khan, known for his work in Hindi cinema, as well as his works in British films and Hollywood has sadly passed away at the age of 54. #ripirrfankhan
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Water Skiing Witches, Florida, 1950s.
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Freddie Mercury eating soup in bed with his cats, 1987.
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Two girls shаre а moment at a Beatles concert
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Little boy about to receive a dog for his birthday (1955)
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Miss World 1994, Aishwarya Rai alongside her mother having lunch with her Miss World Crown on.
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High School Fashion In 1969.
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Carrie Fisher trying on Harrison Ford’s glasses.
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In 1996, a newborn baby girl was left in a garbage can near the city of Kolkata, India. Three friendly street dogs discovered and protected her for nearly two days, even attempting to feed the child before authorities were contacted and the young one was saved.
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Marriage advice for young ladies from a suffragette, 1918. The pamphlet is on display at the Pontypridd Museum in Wales. The suffragette is unknown.
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Terry Fox, a 21 year old Canadian who lost a leg to cancer, began a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research. He ran the equivalent of a full marathon a day. He made it 143 days and 5,373 km before the spread of his cancer forced him to quit. He died June 1981.
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Father/Son Bonding Time, 1980s.
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Today we remember the lives that were lost, 18 years ago, on September 11th, 2001. #NeverForget
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Two women, who wear shorts in public for the first time, draw male attention and cause a car accident! Toronto, 1937
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Football fans wearing masks during a football match in Atlanta during the 1918 flu pandemic.
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Albert Einstein looking fabulous.
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Easter presents for Hitler
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Maradona with his daughter, 1990.
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Barack Obama was known to be heavy marijuana smoker in his teen & college days. His nickname was "Barack Oganja".
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A woman who survived atomic bombing of Nagasaki, 1945.
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“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.” Robin Williams
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Picasso’s self-portrait at ages 18, 25, and 90.
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A mother and her son on their way to a pride walk, 1985.
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A teenager in his bedroom in 1999.
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A girl kissing the posters of David Bowie in Madrid, 1987.
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Iranian woman in the era before the Islamic revolution, 1960.
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Hotel owner James Brock pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, 1964.
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Young Johnny Depp
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A mom helping her kids beat a hard level in Super Mario Land, 1990s.
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Oxford, UK
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The shortest, tallest and fattest man of europe playing a game of cards, 1913. (Colorised)
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Woman and a tornado, 1989
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Christian Dior’s successor Yves Saint Laurent standing alone after attending Dior’s funeral, 1957. Photo by Loomis Dean.
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Chess players on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow (1950s)
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French boys holding their mother's pocketbook, 1962.
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The Undertaker and his Undermother 1998.
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Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient without gloves, a profound gesture at the time, 1991.
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RIP Helen McCrory (1968 - 2021)  Polly Shelby in Peaky Blinders
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The Beatles on What Kind of Girl Do They Prefer, 1960s
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In 1995 a group of NASA scientists studied the effects of various drugs on spiders, specifically on the way they weave their webs
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Vision of the Future, 1930.
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“I’d rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.” ~ Sophia Loren, 1965
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In 1963, wives say goodbye to their loved ones in the Navy.
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Saturn as seen from Titan, painted by Chesley Bonestell, 1948.
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