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Sergeant Alex Rogers with the flag of the Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac battalion. Photograph, ca.1863 - ME10793

Japanese Admiral Togo Heihachiro in the crowd, Japan, photograph by Underwood and Underwood, from L'Illustration, No 3280, January 6, 1906. - BA56235

Celebrations in Yokohama at the victory of Japanese army in the Russo-Japanese conflict, BA56045

San Francisco earthquake ruins, 1906. Man in the ruins of Chinatown in San Francisco, California, USA, following the fire caused by a large earthquake. - SP15307

Christabel Pankhurst with a group of suffragettes, London, 1909 - H330434

Crowd of spectators at the opening of the Pedro Miguel locks, Panama channel, photograph by Underwood, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XL, No 49, December 7, 1913. - BA40601

Australian troop encampment at the pyramids, Egypt, World War I, photo by Underwood, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 3, January 17, 1915. - BA40954

Douglas Fairbanks Boosting Charlie Chaplin to Boost the Liberty Loan in Front of the Sub-Treasury Building: All Wall Street Looking on with Approval, 1918 - 0151742

The three Bigs of Versailles: (left to right) Georges Clemenceau, Thomas Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George. Versailles, 1919 - B000510

Portrait de la physicienne Marie Curie (Maria Curie Sklodowska ou Sklodovska) (1867-1934) dans son laboratoire en 1925 - WH09806

Presentation of Nefertiti bust in the place of its finding (Amarna, Prof. H. Ranke Supervising the excavation, 06.12.1912, on the occasion of a visit of Prince Johann Georg of Saxony with Pricess Mathilde). - B006081

Egypt, Valley of the Kings, The discovery of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (or Tutankhamen, circa 1340-1323 B.C.): archaeologist Howard Carter (1874-1939) examining the third mummy-shaped sarcophagus, 1922 - DA09281

Lange Dorothea, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 - A528087

XI. Olympic Summer Games in Berlin in 1936: The finisher lights the olympic fire with his torch in the Lustgasse. 1st of August 1936. - AA01787

Hindenburg crash. The LZ 129 Hindenburg airship bursting into flames on the 6th May 1937 - SP08132

Twenty years of fascism. Trip of the Fuehrer to Italy. Mussolini, Hitler, Bianchi Bandinelli, Ciano and a German authority admire the Paolina Borghese, a sculptural work by Antonio Canova. Borghese Gallery in Rome, 07.05.1938 - L000004

Second World War. The Ara Pacis protected against allied bombing - DZ07772

Italian workers in an arms factory, Italy, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXX, No 18, May 2, 1943. - BA61541

Seconda guerra mondiale. 15 Luglio 1943: Sbarco degli alleati in Sicilia; Una pattuglia inglese transita in una via di Augusta ridotta un cumulo di macerie - DZ07763

Shipboard fire in the Korean War. Flames and smoke billowing from fires on the flight deck near the starboard bow of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) - SP28790

Airplanes over the Reichstag, Berlin, April 1945 - B031205

D-Day landings invasion of Normandy - American soldiers - SP16824

Second World War. Liberation of Bologna. Resistance April 21, 1945, Bersaglieri of the Legnano battalion liberate Bologna - DZ07024

Second World War. Italy liberated. Roman citizens rejoice at the Colosseum for the successful liberation - DZ07785

World War II (1939-1945). Celebrations for the liberation. Tank with English flag - DZ07289

Auschwitz liberation. Children show tatoed numbers - B001826

World War II. Yalta. February 1945 Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - DZ06915

November 1945-October 1946. Nuremberg Trials. - DZ07269

Fidel Castro and Nikita Krushchev smiling during a meeting in New York - DZ01594

Lino Lacedelli on the K2 peak, July 31, 1954 - DA02157

LBJ Supporter at Democratic Convention, Los Angeles, 1960, by Mickey Pallas - CC00238

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), thirty-fifth president of the United States of America - H650836

Kip Keino (1940) winning the 1500 metres at the Mexico Olympics, 1968 - H650650

Margaret Thatcher with President Sadat of Egypt - E192290

Attack on Pope John Paul the II ,13th May 1981 - DZ00893

Demonstration supporting Nelson Mandela. 1980s - E209793

Chernobyl reactor 4 control room - SP14552

Summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Michael Gorbachov in Geneva. November 1985 - AA31957

Youth on the Berlin Wall before the Brandenburger Gate, 10 November 1989 - B005950

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