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William S. Burroughs and director David Cronenberg behind the scenes of Cronenberg's very loose adaptation of Burroughs' novel The Naked Lunch, 1991

The Old Cincinnati Library Before Being Demolished, 1874-1955.

Roadside near Nablus, Palestine, then-part of the Ottoman Empire, ~1880s?

Boatmen 'legging' through a canal tunnel, a common technique in longer passages with unmotorized vessels, 1961, UK

Women in Palestine grinding grain, ~1924?

American Soldiers preparing to land in Nazi-Collaborationist French North Africa, in America's first major involvement in the European Theatre in World War 2 (November 1942)

Palestinians from Bethlehem journeying to Jerusalem, ~1919?

One must imagine a French philosopher happy - Albert Camus dancing, 1950s?

Street in Nablus, British Mandate of Palestine, 1936

Photo of the Sphinx taken from a balloon before it was excavated. I can't find a date, but based on when it was excavated and the history of photography, some time between 1840 and 1867

Austro-Hungarian troops in a trench on the Eastern Front, WW1, 1915

Miners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921

Snowy day in Cumberland, Appalachia, USA, ~1910

The noble pug-dog, Ireland, ~1900

Guests at a same-sex wedding in the early Soviet Union, 1921

Important skills for the modern gal, London, UK, 1901

Legendary artist Frida Kahlo being casually dismissed in contemporary American newspaper headline, 1933

Port in Jaffa, British Mandate of Palestine, ~1930

Ukrainians holding a picture of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko during the German occupation, Kyiv, WW1, 1918

Haifa Train Station after an attack by a Zionist terrorist org (Irgun?), British Mandate of Palestine, 1946