Clint Eastwood on Lee Van Cleef at his funeral: “Van Cleef had one of the better faces on the screen - and that you cannot have a good protagonist without a strong antagonist.” (1989)

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John Brown (Abolitionist), c. 1856

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Dr Mengele’s South American ID. Mengele came extremely close to being caught throughout his time there, but slipped the net each time.

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Robert Duvall in 1989, from behind-the-scenes of "Lonesome Dove"

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Robert Duvall in 1989, from behind-the-scenes of "Lonesome Dove"

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Ira Hayes, a Native American marine immortalized raising the American flag over Iwo Jima, sits in a Los Angeles jail cell (1953). Crippling PTSD and unwanted fame saw Hayes arrested 52 times for public intoxication after the war. He froze to death in the Arizona desert while drunk in 1955.

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My great-grandfather’s mugshots, after he was arrested for bigamy. December 1926, Australia.

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Canada's First Nations people - 1910

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My grandfather was the greatest supervillain of the 1970’s.

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An Italian man named Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, hid it in his apartment for two years and then contacted the owner of an art gallery in Italy, expecting a reward for returning the painting to what he regarded as its "homeland". He only served 7 months in jail

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Immigrants arriving in the US through Ellis Island from 1906 to 1914 captured by photographer Augustus Frederick Sherman

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This is the last known photo of Nicola Tesla. On 7th January 1943, Tesla died alone in the New Yorker Hotel. By the end of his life, he was penniless and had become a vegetarian

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Robert Duvall in 1989, from behind-the-scenes of "Lonesome Dove"