RM2K0RRJW–Illustration depicting a monk looking desperate with his crucifix having fallen to the floor in front of a white canopied bed. By Georges Lepape (1887-1971), French poster artist, illustrator and fashion designer
RM2K0E1DC–Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin (1889--1939), usually billed using the French transliteration Ivan Mosjoukine, Russian silent film actor.
RM2K0E1GG–North Korean propaganda photographs of university students learning for the benefit of the state, and an industrial worker satisfied with doing hard work for the benefit of the state, 1964.
RM2K0E0PG–Hyehwamun North East Gate, one of the Eight Gates of Seoul in the Fortress Wall of Seoul, South Korea, which surrounded the city in the Joseon Dynasty. The gate is also known as Dongsomun, East Small Gate, 1880.
RM2K0E23A–Eva Braun (1912 - 30 April 1945) was a German who was the long-time companion and later the wife of Adolf Hitler. By 1936, she was a part of his household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden. She was a key figure within Hitler's inner social circle.
RM2K0E5YY–Douglas Ross Hyde (1860 - 1949), known as An Craoibhin Aoibhinn (the pleasant little branch), Irish academic, linguist, scholar of the Irish language, politician and diplomat who served as the first president of Ireland from June 1938 to June 1945.
RM2K0E70K–Shirley Anita Chisholm (1924 - 2005) American politician. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress. In the 1972 United States presidential election, she became the first black candidate to run for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
RM2K0E0PX–Joseph Frank Keaton (October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966), known professionally as Buster Keaton, was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer.
RM2K0E1C2–The national funeral march for Empress Myeongseong two years after her assassination in 1895. Empress Myeongseong or Empress Myung-Sung (1851 - 1895), known informally as Queen Min, was the first official wife of Gojong, the 26th king of Joseon and the first emperor of the Korean Empire.
RM2K0E1X6–Paul Morgan (October 1, 1886 - December 10, 1938) Jewish Austrian actor and Cabaret performer. He died in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938.
RM2K0E485–Hermann Thimig (3 October 1890 - 7 July 1982) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1916 and 1967.
RM2K0E271–The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963, at Bridge Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. Gang members included Bruce Reynolds, Gordon Goody, Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson, Roy James, John Daly, Jimmy White, Ronnie Biggs, Tommy Wisbey, Jim Hussey, Bob Welch and Roger Cordrey, as well Harry Smith and Danny Pembroke.
RM2K0E3DY–Military parade before the German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II in the months leading up to the start of World War I, 1913.
RM2K0E6TF–Manuel Azana Diaz (1880 - 1940) Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic (1936-1939).
RM2K0E60D–Alois Hitler (1837 - 1903), Austrian civil servant in the customs service, and the father of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany.
RM2K0E3TW–British soldiers on route through the Somme, France, World War I, 1918.
RM2K0E6DA–Hernan Cortes, (1485 - December 2, 1547) Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
RM2K0E50F–View of the Donuimun Gate, Seoul, Korea, showing the electric tram rails and telegraph poles. Joseon Dynasty Korea, 1900.
RM2K0E6TX–Portrait of the Lady in Waiting A. M. Izmaylova by imperial Russian artist, Aleksey Antropov (1716 - 1795). Baroque portrait, oil on canvas 1759.
RM2K0E1CT–Early European map of East Asia including Korea. Asia in praecipuas ipsius partes distributa Map by Pieter van der Aa, 1659-1733.
RM2K0E3C2–Yojae ch'waryo Atlas, hand-drawn coloured maps of Korea and environs, 1896.
RM2K0E3BG–Mehmed V Resad (1844 - 1918) Ottoman Sultan (r. 1909-1918). He was the son of Sultan Abdulmejid I. He succeeded his half-brother Abdul Hamid II after the 31 March Incident. He was succeeded by his half-brother Mehmed VI.
RM2K0E68A–New leader of Communist China, Hua Guofeng Chinese (left) with Ye Jianying, 6th October 1976.
RM2K0E2BR–John Christie with his wife Ethel. John Reginald Halliday Christie (8 April 1899 - 15 July 1953), known to his family and friends as Reg Christie, was an English serial killer and alleged necrophile active during the 1940s and early 1950s. He murdered at least eight people, including his wife, Ethel, in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London.
RM2K0E7AP–Sofia Scicolone (born 1934), known as Sophia Loren; Italian actress. During the 1950s she starred in films as a sexually emancipated personae and was one of the best known sex symbols. She was named by the American Film Institute as the 21st greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. She is also now one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
RM2K0E78C–Joseon Era, Korea, 1890-1900. Street scene showing a public school with poor children and their teacher.
RM2K0E63F–Old man, face with one eye closed, 1905, facing camera by Fred Holland Day (1864--1933), American photographer and publisher. He was prominent in literary and photography circles in the late 19th century and was a leading Pictorialist. He was an early and vocal advocate for accepting photography as a fine art.
RM2K0E525–Anna Sten (December 3, 1908 - November 12, 1993) was a Ukrainian-born American actress.
RM2K0E4PC–A portrait of the young Zhou Enlai (1898 - 1976), first Premier of the People's Republic of China. From October 1949 until his death in January 1976, Zhou was China's head of government. Zhou served under Chairman Mao Zedong and helped the Communist Party rise to power, later helping consolidate its control, form its foreign policy, and develop the Chinese economy.
RM2K0E7CW–Simone Veil (1927 - 2017) French stateswoman who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982. As health minister, she is best remembered for advancing women's legal rights in France, in particular for the 1975 law that legalized abortion.
RM2K0E1FE–Social Distancing encouraged on a public health poster in London during the Covid-19 Corona Virus Pandemic of 2020-2021
RM2K0E09Y–Mary Brian (born Louise Byrdie Dantzler, February 17, 1906 - December 30, 2002) was an American actress, who made the transition from silent films to sound films.
RM2K0E41C–Petula Sally Olwen Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress, and composer, 1956.
RM2K0E6WE–Portrait of Countess Ursula Mniszek by Dmitri Grigorievich Levitsky. 1782. Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky (May 1735 - 17 April 1822) was a Russian Imperial artist and portrait painter of Zaporozhian Cossack descent.
RM2K0E6XW–Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918 - 1996) 39th vice-president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second and most recent vice-president to resign the position, the other being John C. Calhoun in 1832.
RM2K0E0G2–Theodor Konrad Loos (1883 - 1954) German actor. The son of a watchmaker and instruments manufacturer, he decided though to become an actor. Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 - January 16, 1942) was an American actress, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in screwball comedies. Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903[1][2] - August 12, 1990) was a British-American actress, most active during the silent-film era and into the early 1930s.
RM2K0E274–North Korean propaganda photograph of a healthy content family. 1964
RM2K0E721–Shirley Anita Chisholm (1924 - 2005) American politician. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress. In the 1972 United States presidential election, she became the first black candidate to run for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
RM2K0E3JB–Coloured photo of Anna May Wong. Wong Liu-tsong (January 3, 1905 - February 3, 1961), known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition.
RM2K0E0T9–Propaganda extolling the idea of Chollima, used by Kim Il-sung to energize the workers in North Korea to bring the country out of the rubble of the Korean War to obtain a better life and a more prosperous country in a short amount of time. Kim Il-sung first introduced the term Chollima in December 1956, shortly before the start of the 1957-61 five-year plan
RM2K0E27R–The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963, at Bridge Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. Gang members included Bruce Reynolds, Gordon Goody, Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson, Roy James, John Daly, Jimmy White, Ronnie Biggs, Tommy Wisbey, Jim Hussey, Bob Welch and Roger Cordrey, as well Harry Smith and Danny Pembroke.
RM2K0E26P–Frank Costello (1891 - 1973) Italian-American crime boss of the Luciano crime family. In 1957, Costello survived an assassination attempt ordered by Vito Genovese and carried out by Vincent Gigante. However, the altercation persuaded Costello to relinquish power to Genovese and retire.
RM2K0E6M7–Michael Collins (1890 - 1922) Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th century struggle for Irish independence. He was Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State from January 1922, and commander-in-chief of the National Army from July until his death in an ambush in August 1922, during the Civil War.
RM2K0E6T6–Portrait of Catherine II the Legislatress in the temple devoted to the Goddess of Justice by D. G. Levitsky of the Empress Catherine II of Russia/Catherine the Great. 1770.
RM2K0E27X–The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England.
RM2K0E4H5–The My Lai massacre, was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Son Tinh District, South Vietnam, on 16 March 1968 during the Vietnam War. Between 347 and 504 unarmed people were killed by U.S. Army soldiers.
RM2K0E0W3–Rice workers on a communist collective farm in North Korea, 1961.
RM2K0E5YP–Photograph of national celebrations in Pyongyang, North Korea. Celebrations is built around the cult of the leader Kim Il Sung, 1961.
RM2K0E1WT–Pyongyang Suu and Magsae Patterns (Ryeonhwamun). The decorative patterns of Goguryeo tombs were usually drawn from the pedestal to the ceiling or on pillars. Goguryeo tombs, officially designated as the Complex of Koguryo Tombs, are tombs in North Korea. In July 2004, they became the first UNESCO World Heritage site in the country.
RM2K0E2CT–A 15th century English public execution block used to decapitate condemned prisoners. This was a form of capital punishment which members of the general public may voluntarily attend.
RM2K0E5EY–Sin Chaeho, or Shin Chae-Ho (1880-1936), Korean independence activist, historian, anarchist, nationalist, and a founder of Korean ethnic nationalist historiography. During his exile in China, Shin joined the Eastern Anarchist Association and wrote anti-imperialist and pro-independence articles in various outlets; his anarchist activities lead to his arrest and subsequent death in prison, February 21, 1936.
RM2K0E4N8–January 18, 1949, a unit of the People's Liberation Army on the front line of Zhejiang, with the close cooperation of the navy and air force, crossed the sea to fight, liberating the entrenched Chiang Kai-shek army. Jiangshan Island.
RM2K0E4D3–Auxiliary Corps of the Black Shirts' Action Squads, known as the Black Brigades (Brigate Nere), a Fascist paramilitary groups, organized and run by the Republican Fascist Party (Partito Fascista Repubblicano, PFR) operating in the Italian Social Republic (in northern Italy), during the final years of World War II, and after the signing of the Italian Armistice in 1943.
RM2K0E432–Norma Shearer as Queen Marie-Antoinette from the trailer for the film Marie Antoinette (1938).
RM2K0E5KH–Painting showing Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807 - 1882), Italian general, patriot and republican. He contributed to the Italian unification and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy.
RM2K0E3PT–President Woodrow Wilson and his war cabinet, 1918. Left to right top row: Woodrow Wilson (President), William McAdoo (Treasury Secretary), Thomas Watt Gregory (attorney General), Josephus Daniels (secretary of the Navy), David Franklin Houston (secretary of agriculture), William Bauchop Wilson (Secretary of Labour),. Front Row: Left to right: Robert Lansing (secretary of State), Newton D. Baker (Secretary of War), Albert Sidney Burleson (Postmaster general), Franklin Knight Lane (Sec. of the Interior), William C. Redfield (Sec. of Commerce).
RM2K0E2CM–Nancy Spungen (1958 - 1978); American girlfriend of English punk rock band Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and a figure of the 1970s punk rock scene. She went to London at the height of the punk rock movement and became involved with Sid Vicious. Their relationship was punctuated by bouts of domestic violence and drug abuse. The couple moved to New York City and checked into the Hotel Chelsea, where in October 1978, Spungen was found dead in the bathroom of the couple's room, with a single stab wound to the abdomen. Sid Vicious was charged with her murder, but died of a heroin overdose while o
RM2K0E71A–Joan Baez (born 1941) American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Baez became more vocal about her disagreement with the Vietnam War. 1972.
RM2K0E5E6–North Korean propaganda oil painting showing resistance fighters planning attacks against the Japanese. Meeting of Men and Women in Langgang-hyeon, 1938.
RM2K0E0JM–Propaganda Illustration extolling the idea of Chollima, used by Kim Il-sung to energize the workers in North Korea to bring the country out of the rubble of the Korean War to obtain a better life and a more prosperous country in a short amount of time. Kim Il-sung first introduced the term Chollima in December 1956, shortly before the start of the 1957-61 five-year plan.
RM2K0E346–Painting of Korean monk Jajang, who founded the Tongdosa temple in Korea in 646. Jajang (590-658) was a monk born Kim Seonjong, into the royal Kim family, in the kingdom of Silla. He is credited with founding the temple of Tongdosa in 646 CE, near in what is now Busan, South Korea.
RM2K0E4RD–Pope Leo XIII (born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, 1810 - 1903). Head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 to his death in 1903. He was the oldest pope, reigning until the age of 93, with the exception of Pope Benedict XVI as emeritus Pope.
RM2K0E4FX–Empress Sunjeonghyo (1894 - 1966), of the Haepyeong Yun clan, was the second wife and Empress Consort of Emperor Yunghui, the last emperor of the Joseon Dynasty, Korean Empire.
RM2K0E70E–Joan Baez (born 1941) American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Baez became more vocal about her disagreement with the Vietnam War. 1972.
RM2K0E6BG–Painting titled 'The Chess Players' by Karel van Mander (1548-1606) a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, 16th century.
RM2K0E6H5–Portrait of Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754-1823) by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). Oil on canvas, 1778. Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.
RM2K0E2D2–Annie Chapman (1840 - 8 September 1888) second victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated a minimum of five women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London from late August to early November 1888.
RM2K0E7A8–Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
RM2K0E7EG–Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu 1910 - 1997), honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012.
RM2K0E2C5–Charles Arthur Salvador (born 1952), better known as Charles Bronson, British criminal who has been referred to in the British press as the 'most violent prisoner in Britain' and 'Britain's most notorious prisoner'. He has spent periods detained in the Rampton, Broadmoor and Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospitals. Upon his release in 1987, he began a bare-knuckle boxing career in the East End of London. His promoter thought he needed a more suitable name and suggested he change it to Charles Bronson in 1987, after the American actor.
RM2K0E26W–Carlo Gambino (1902 - 1976) Italian-American crime boss of the Gambino crime family. After the Apalachin Meeting in 1957, and the imprisonment of Vito Genovese in 1959, Gambino took over the Commission of the American Mafia until his death from a heart attack on October 15, 1976.
RM2K0E5DW–The Revolt of the Languedoc wine growers was a mass movement in 1907 in Languedoc and the Pyrenees-Orientales of France that was repressed by the government of Georges Clemenceau. It was caused by a serious crisis in winemaking at the start of the 20th century. The movement was also called the 'paupers revolt' of the Midi. It was marked by the fraternization of the 17th line infantry regiment with the demonstrators in Beziers.
RM2K0E5PH–Skull from a body recovered in the ruins of Dresden, Germany, World War II, 1945.
RM2K0E71N–Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (1928 - 2017) Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counsellor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981.
RM2K0E788–Joseon Era, Korea, 1890-1900. Scene showing Dongnimmun (Independence) Gate, a memorial gate located in Seoul, South Korea. The gate was built following the First Sino-Japanese War to inspire a spirit of independence away from Korea's previous status as a Chinese tributary state, which was declared by the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
RM2K0E0M2–Granite lion before the gateway to the old Royal Palace-looking north-Seoul, Korea (Joseon era, 1890
RM2K0E4CB–World War Two: Anderson shelter, designed in 1938 by William Paterson and Oscar Carl (Karl) Kerrison in response to a request from the Home Office. It was named after Sir John Anderson, then Lord Privy Seal with special responsibility for preparing air-raid precautions immediately prior to the outbreak of World War II. Anderson shelters were designed to accommodate up to six people. The main principle of protection was based on curved and straight galvanised corrugated steel panels.
RM2K0E4YE–People's Liberation Army cavalry unit passed through Qianmen Street in Beiping (now Beijing) after the Battle of Pingjin. 1949.
RM2K0E6FD–John Edward Redmond (1 September 1856 - 6 March 1918) was an Irish nationalist politician, barrister, and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. He was best known as leader of the moderate Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) from 1900 until his death in 1918.
RM2K0E3EC–Market scene in Joseon Era Korea, possibly Busan, c1900.
RM2K0E53X–US army operating in Vietnam circa 1968 against the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.
RM2K0E5JP–North Korean art: Learning (Pencil) by Choi Jeong-Yeon (18 years old) 1963.
RM2K0E638–Girl in drapery by Fred Holland Day (1864--1933), American photographer and publisher. He was prominent in literary and photography circles in the late 19th century and was a leading Pictorialist. He was an early and vocal advocate for accepting photography as a fine art.
RM2K0E439–Visit by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser to Chairman Hua Guo Feng of China. Beijing, 1976.
RM2K0E766–Valery Giscard d'Estaing (1926 - 2020), French politician who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981, seen addressing the United Nations in 1978.
RM2K0E5AD–The Ages Of Workers - Triptych - 1895-1897 (central panel) by Leon-Henri-Marie Frederic (1856 - 1940), Belgian Symbolist painter. His earliest paintings joined Christian mysticism with pantheistic themes.
RM2K0E63J–Boys seated on a rock, c1911 by Fred Holland Day (1864--1933), American photographer and publisher. He was prominent in literary and photography circles in the late nineteenth century and was a leading Pictorialist. He was an early and vocal advocate for accepting photography as a fine art.
RM2K0E64N–Docks near Limehouse by Percy Noel Boxer. Drawing, inscribed with signature, title, and date, 1910.
RM2K0E5T2–Kurt Daluege (1897 - 1946); chief of the national uniformed Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) of Nazi Germany. Following Reinhard Heydrich's assassination in 1942, he served as Deputy Protector for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. After the end of World War II, he was extradited to Czechoslovakia, tried, convicted and executed in 1946.
RM2K0E1GY–Coloured photo of Loretta Young (born Gretchen Young; January 6, 1913 - August 12, 2000) an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953.
RM2K0E0TW–Propaganda image depicting successful agriculture sector of the North Korean Economy, 1970. The North Korean famine was a period of mass starvation and a general economic crisis from 1994 to 1998 in North Korea. Between 240,000 and 3,500,000 North Koreans died from starvation or hunger-related illnesses.
RM2K0E1YT–Coloured photo of Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser, better known by her stage name Kathe von Nagy (4 April 1904 - 20 December 1973), was a Hungarian actress, model, dancer, and singer who worked in the German and French cinema.
RM2K0E6CX–Hernan Cortes, (1485 - December 2, 1547) Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
RM2K0E40X–Carnaby Steet, street sign of the famous fashion street in the City of Westminster, London.
RM2K0E597–In 1902, a volcanic eruption from Mount Pelee, Martinique, devastated all of northern side and completely destroyed the city of Saint-Pierre.
RM2K0E4NW–Sigmund Freud (1856 - 23 September 1939) Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Portrait by Ben Shahn 1956.
RM2K0E67X–Medallion portrait of Prince Albert. Glass mosaic, Venice, Italy. Made by Salviati & Co. Gift of Queen Victoria.
RM2K0E4YD–In 1945, Hua Guofeng, with his old friends Zhang Dong, Yin Zhizhi, Hong Tao and Li Li at the resident of the eighth sub-district of Jinsui. Hua Guofeng (1921 - 2008), was a Chinese politician who served as Chairman of the Communist Party of China and Premier of the People's Republic of China.
RM2K0E673–Hua Guofeng, Ye Jianying, Deng Xiaoping, Li Xiannian, and Wang Dongxing step into the venue of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China amid warm applause. Convened August 12-18, 1977.
RM2K0E5JT–Painting showing Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807 - 1882), Italian general, patriot and republican. He contributed to the Italian unification and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy.
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