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Making the Titanic's anchor chain at Hingley and Sons
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Family recreational vehicle, 1924. In the 1920s families who wanted to travel into the wilderness on vacation modified their own automobiles into makeshift campers.
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Mata Hari, 1906. Born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (1876 – 1917), she better known by the stage name Mata Hari. A Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan, she was inspired by dances she had seen in the Dutch East Indies, the stage name that she took meaning “eye of the day” or "sun" in Malay. Mata Hari was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I although she had been recruited to spy for France in 1916. She maintained that at she was simply romancing the Germans because she wanted to get more information from them. French officials still found her guilty of espionage and executed her by firing squad on October 15, 1917.
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Marilyn Monroe with her first husband, James Dougherty, c. 1943–44. They married on 19 June, 1942, just after her 16th birthday. Her husband was shipped out to the Pacific in 1944. She became a model, a step opposed by her husband, and they divorced in 1946.
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7 year-old Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson with his father Rocky Johnson, who was a famous pro wrestler. (1978)
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Hitler visits Napoleon’s grave, 1940, and pays his respects.
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George "Professor" Burchett (1872 – 1953), c 1950, English tattoo artist known as the "King of Tattooists". Burchett became the first star tattooist and a favourite among the wealthy upper class and European royalty. Among his customers were King Alfonso XIII of Spain and King Frederick IX of Denmark. It was reputed that he had also tattooed King George V of the United Kingdom.
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Beijing University students put the finishing touches on the Goddess of Democracy, modelled after the Statue of Liberty, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, May 30, 1989. the Styrofoam statue stood about 9 metres (30 feet) high. The statue was constructed over four days out of foam and papier-mâché over a metal armature and was destroyed on June 4, 1989, by soldiers clearing the protesters from Tiananmen square. Estimates of death have ranged up to thousands. Reaction to the protests set limits on political expression in China that have lasted up to the present day.
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Saundra Brown, the first black woman on the Oakland police force, gets instructions on how to shoot a shotgun, 1970. She is currently a federal judge.
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A soldier rescues a girl named Barbara James from the ruins of her home after a series of bombings, London, 1944.
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Las Vegas visitors observe mushroom cloud from atomic test just 65 miles away, 1955.
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A Dutch woman is seen here with her husband, a German soldier that she had married during the German occupation of the Netherlands. Refusing to leave his side, she marched with the German prisoners to the Prisoner of War holding center. Picture taken in Walcheren, Zeeland, the Netherlands. November 1944.
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Playground, 1912. Some modern researchers question the value of safety-first playgrounds. Even if children do suffer fewer physical injuries — and the evidence for that is debatable — the critics say that these playgrounds may stunt emotional development, leaving children with anxieties and fears that are ultimately worse than a broken bone.
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A thylacine or ‘Tasmanian tiger’ in captivity, circa 1930. The last thylacine died in captivity in 1936.
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Picture of a 1st Class stateroom aboard the Titanic, 1912.
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