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The 1839 self-portrait photograph of Robert Cornelius of Philadelphia, now considered to be the first or earliest known selfie 😁

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A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument.

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Pele and British captain Bobby Moore trade jerseys in 1970 as a sign of mutual respect during a World Cup that had been marred by racism .

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A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China.

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The opening of the Second Council of the Vatican , the 21st Ecumenical Council of the Church

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Sandbags protecting the portals of Notre-Dame de Paris in WW1 .

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A beach official measures bathing suits to make sure they aren’t too short (1920)

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Young Maronite militiaman, with an icon of Saint Rita on the stock of his weapon. (Lebanese Civil War).
 
Harold Whittles hears for the first time ever after a doctor places an earpiece in his left ear.

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A French civilian cries in despair as Nazis occupy Paris during World War II.

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God bless you, Mother France. Great are you in your history, unbowed are you in your people.
 
World’s Oldest Paris Photo Is Also the First to Feature Humans

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A German World War II prisoner, released by the Soviet Union, is reunited with his daughter. The child had not seen her father since she was one year old.

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The 19th century graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband deny this Dutch cemetery the power of separating them.

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On a warm autumn day in 1932, 11 workmen sat perched on a steel girder at Rockefeller Center, smoking, eating sandwiches and reading the newspaper some 800 feet up in the air.

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Senator John F. Kennedy and fiancé Jacqueline Bouvier go sailing while on vacation at the Kennedy compound in June 1953 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

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