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Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest

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US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, meeting during the Casablanca conference in 1943. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

Second World War

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Trouble brewing: This illustration shows “Boston boys throwing tea into the harbour” on 16 December 1773. The protestors revelled in the opportunity to make a bold statement that would be felt across the world. (Getty images)

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Ian Fleming, British author and creator of the James Bond character

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Shoppers in Liverpool during the 1960s

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The First Thanksgiving in 1621, after a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme; screen print, 1932. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

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The USS West Virginia burns at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941

Second World War

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Karen Jones on the Wild West

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Emma Corrin as Princess Diana in season 4 of ‘The Crown’

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Nellie Bly

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Margaret MacMillan is professor of History at the University of Toronto and an emeritus professor of International History at Oxford University. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Charlotta Bass (centre) was a newspaper publisher, activist and would-be US vice president, who fought against racial discrimination and social injustice. She's seen here with presidential running mate Vincent Hallinan (to Charlotta’s right) and singer and actor-turned-activist Paul Robeson

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An RAF crew with their American Douglas Boston light bomber, circa 1943. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

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President Donald Trump

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President Nixon making final TV address

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