Little Pictures Big History

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Prostitutes in Can Tho, Vietnam, 1970 by Philip Jones Griffith.

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First miniskirts come into fashion. Latvia in 1965.

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Adolf Hitler informs Czech President Emil Hacha of the imminent German invasion of Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939 in Berlin. Hacha suffered a heart attack during the meeting, and had to be kept awake by medical staff, eventually giving in and accepting Hitler's surrender terms.

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Michael Caine out for the night in Los Angeles, 1966.

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Attorney General Robert Kennedy is comforted by two of his children on the lawn of his home, after he had been notified of the assassination of his brother, November 22, 1963.

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Teddy Roosevelt becomes the first US President to fly in an airplane, 1910.

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Badass motorcycle chariots celebration of New South Wales police in Australia in 1936.

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A 25th division tank uses a flame thrower on an enemy pillbox deeply emplaced in a hillside near Korea's Han River front on March 30, 1951.

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"Infantrymen Pushing through the Hurtgen Forest in Germany." 1944.

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A human skull keeps watch over US soldiers encamped in the jungle during the Vietnam War, 25 October 1968.

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Victim of the Cultural Revolution, China, 1967.

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Highway of Death, Kuwait. 1991. The result of American forces bombing retreating Iraqi forces.

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The interior of the White House during renovations in 1950.

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Harassment during a civil rights sit-in at the Cherrydale Drug Fair in Arlington, VA June 10, 1960.

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French girl vents anger by kicking at a passing German prisoner on his way to confinement after being captured. September 26, 1944

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Russian firefighters. Moscow, 1903

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On the way to Woodstock, 1969.

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Loading a B-29 prior to a raid on Tokyo, 1945.

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An incredibly rare, candid and original color photograph a B-17 bombardier heading toward Germany, 1940's.

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Members of Colonel Martinez's Search Bloc with the body of Pablo Escobar. December 2, 1993.

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People posing next to the Statue of Liberty as it's unpacked, 1886.

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Spectators at a slave auction in the town square of Easton, Maryland, 1850's.

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Bill Gates in his office, 1983.

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Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio at the Fairmont Banff Hotel in Banff, Canada, five months before their wedding. August 19, 1953.

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Che Guevara's corpse on display in Vallegrande, Bolivia. Image taken by covert CIA operative. 10 October 1967.

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The Beatles in 1957. George Harrison is 14, John Lennon is 16, and Paul McCartney is 15.

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East Germans crossing into West Berlin check out western pornography, the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 10, 1989.

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Traffic Jam near the Brandenburg Gate as thousands of East Germans move into West Berlin on the first Saturday after the fall of the Berlin Wall. November, 1989.