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WE ARE ALL PROSTITUTES AND JUNKIES
1970: Agatha Christie on her 80th birthday. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (née Miller; 1890-1976) was an English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigations of Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap.
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McKinley Presidential Library and Museum
William McKinley - 25th President of the United States - as a young man.
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Abraham Lincoln in Color
Photo taken by Alexander Gardner that's been colorized. This photo was taken in 1865 just two months before President Lincoln was killed.
an advertisement for the first man on the moon, july 20, 1960 is shown
I remember where I was.
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Stephen Hawking
"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road." Stephen Hawking
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Charles Dickens - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Charles Dickens, 1859
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Alan Mathison Turing (1912–1954) British mathematician, logician & cryptanalyst. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" & "computation". Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science & artificial intelligence.
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FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HIS WIFE ,FIRST LADY MARTHA WASHINGTON AND HONORABLE PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON
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Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea. ~ John Jacob Astor of NYC's Gilded Age perished on the Titanic.(634x507) - Imgur
Titanic's launch in Belfast
Titanic's Belfast launch - unseen pictures
Titanic's launch in Belfast
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Men waiting in line for an opportunity at a job during the Depression, 1930.
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BatHouseDesign - Etsy
Tattoos from Nazi concentration camps.