Paul Pelliot, french archeologist, uncovering and translating 5000 old chinese, buddhist, and christian manuscripts forgotten in the Mogao Caves, in Gansu, China, spending three straight weeks working in the cave by candlelight, before deciding on which he would bring back to Paris. 1909 [416 x 570]

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American Marines enjoying a can of fruit cocktail during a lull in the fighting. Vietnam war, Khe Sahn, 21 February 1968. [1024 x 790]

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Daguerreotype, 1850s. Two women in beautiful ballgowns [1700×800]

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A police officer examines the remains of a V2 that hit London in September 1944 [1200×848]

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A worker drags the limed corpse of a young boy into a river for disposal in the aftermath of the 1970 Bhola cyclone, East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). The official death toll for the disaster was more than 500,000 casualties. [1335 x 2048]

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Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John F. Kennedy, being shot by Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963 while being escorted by Dallas police. [1451×1111]

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