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An American sergeant enjoys his Thanksgiving turkey under a makeshift shelter on the Italian Front, November 1944

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Female snipers of the Third Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front. (Germany, May 1945) [1200×1858]

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Andes crash survivors (1972) posing shortly before rescue. To stay alive for 72 days, they had to eat their dead friends.

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A woman using "The Wonder Automatic" vending machine, which dispensed already-lighted cigarettes for a single penny. London, 1931

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The "Iter Avto" (1932) – One of the earliest analog car navigation systems

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Jacob Miller, the Civil War soldier who was shot right between the eyes and lived to tell the tale until he was 87. Photo taken in 1910. [360x780]

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People in 1930s London used to hang baby cages outside apartment windows so their children could “get fresh air.”[360x448]

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Gaspar Wallnöfer, the oldest Austrian soldier of WWI, at 79 years old. September 1917.

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Testing a bulletproof vest at point-blank range, Washington D.C., September 13, 1923. [455x380]

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Pablo Picasso captured by René Burri at his villa "La Californie" in Cannes, France, 1957

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