Astronauts Deke Slayton and Thomas Stafford toast to a successful docking during the Apollo/Soyuz “handshake in space.” Their cosmonaut counterparts gave them tubes of Russian Vodka to celebrate — but after a drink, the Americans realized it actually contained borscht. (Earth Orbit,1975) [2000×1341]

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The first broadcast speech of Queen Elizabeth (then 14 year old Princess Elizabeth) with her sister Princess Margaret, broadcasting on “Children’s Hour” from Buckingham Palace to the children sent away as evacuees. 1940. [3500 x 2572]

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Horace Bristol, Yakuza Public Baths, Japan, 1947 [540 x 548]

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These two stylish gents pondered life after leaving Cambridge University (1926).[730 × 819]

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Ninety Degrees North, Arctic Ocean, 1909. This photo was taken by Robert E. Peary, the first person to reach the North Pole. [2231×2800]

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Queen Elizabeth leaps ashore during a visit to Turkey, 1971 [480×610]

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