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Pope John Paul II meets with Mehmet Agca, the man who attempted to assassinate him, 1983

Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient without gloves, 1991

Omayra Sanchez, young victim of the Armero Tragedy in Colombia, 1985

Harold Whittles hearing sound for the first time, 1974

The original Moulin Rouge the year before it burned down and other historical images, 1890-1930

The vulture and the little girl

German expedition to Tibet led by Ernst Schäfer, 1938-1939

With nylon stockings scarce, women would paint their legs so it looked like stockings, 1940s

John Lennon signs an autograph for Mark Chapman – his murderer, 1980

Dora Ratjen, a German Olympic athlete, who was arrested at a train station on suspicion of being a man in a dress, 1938

Photographs capture the first bananas in Norway, 1905

Named by Life magazine as the “The Most Beautiful Suicide”: Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the Empire State Building, 1947

The Unbroken Seal on King Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922

Advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug, 1941

The iceberg that sunk the Titanic, 1912

The Kiss of Life – A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, 1967

Toffs and Toughs – The photo that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937

Albert Einstein’s matriculation certificate, 1896

Old photographs of Rat-catchers, 1900s

Women boxing on a roof, 1938

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