Santa Claus with Christmas toys on a sled drawn by white turkeys, c. 1909 [1080×735]

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Organized crime figure Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal testifies before a US Senate subcommittee on racketeering and gambling, where he repeatedly asserted his 5th Amendment right. Rosenthal’s life would later be portrayed in the movie Casino. September 7, 1961. [900 x 606]

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Finnish Army BT-42, destroyed during the Battle of Viipuri (During the Continuation War), 20th June 1944. [640×412]

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Charles Conrad Jr., Apollo 12 Commander, stands next to Surveyor 3 which landed on the Moon 2 years earlier. Lunar module can be seen in the upper right. 1969. [3000×2627]

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Sultan Olol Dinle of Somalia, in Italy, during the festivities of Adolf Hitler’s visit to Rome, 1938. A member of a extinct Somali Empire, the Sultan made an alliance with Fascist Italy in the 1920s in exchange for military protection from its rival in the region, the Ethiopian Empire. [1075×1572]

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Astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom in a centrifuge training machine, Johnsville, Pennsylvania, 1959 [771×645]

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