May 8th 1945, Churchill waves to the masses as victory in Europe is official. (3602 × 3582)

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Beatle Paul McCartney visits Iran, 1968. [1100 x 736]

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Jerry Shores and his family at their homestead in Custer County, Nebraska in 1887. All the adults in the photo were formerly enslaved. The houses in the background are made of sod, a common building material on the treeless plains. [1000 x 774]

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Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States, 1928 [785×1000]

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Belka and Strelka. Soviet Union, 1960. First Earth-born creatures (along with a grey rabbit, 42 mice, two rats, flies and several plants and fungi) to go into orbit and return alive. [1418×1595]

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On 7 May 1954 the battle of Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends with a french defeat after 57 days of fighting between the French Union’s French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. Viet Minh troops plant their flag over the captured French headquarters. [620×349]

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