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Ahmad Shah Massoud, anti-Taliban Afghan guerilla leader, assassinated by the Taliban in 2001, picture taken in 1990

Harry T. Hearsey's bicycle shop in Downtown Indianapolis in 1896, where Major Taylor worked as a bicycle instructor

Katherine Switzer, first registered woman to complete the Boston Marathon, with her fellow runners interfering with an official's attempt to remove her bib number, USA, 1967

Woman drinking from a community water pump, Chicago, USA, ~1899

Chairman Mao (left) with the genocidal Khmer Rouge leaders Pol Pot (center) and Ieng Sary, Beijing, China, 1975

Fishermen repairing their nets, Jaffa, Palestine, 1925

Signalmen of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces during the Battle of the Isonzo (1915–1917) installing an antenna and a hand-cranked generator for a radio station high in the mountains. (Colorized)

Remains of Osaka after a night of American terror bombing, Japan, WW2, 1945

Dr. Simona Kossak, Polish environmentalist, with her pet crow, date unknown, 1970s or 80s?

Anne Frank's father, Otto, visits the attic where they hid from the Germans in World War II. He stands alone as he is the only member of his family to have survived the Holocaust, 1960.

Newlywed Palestinian couple, Bethlehem, 1960s

Snow in Hebron, Palestine, 1950

Experimental firefighter suit, Germany, early 1900s

Togo the sled dog, Alaska, USA, 1920s

The Old Curiosity Shop, oldest shop in London, built 1567 AD, photo taken ~1890 AD?

Noodle delivery, Tokyo, Japan, 1935

'Captured' Nazi decoy guns and turrets, Normandy, France, WW2, 1944

Daguerreotype of American anti-slavery militant John Brown, 1846-1847

Farmers planting a tree, Nablus, Palestine, ~1930

Imperial German soldier next to an artillery shell, WW1, 1916