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1940
Chad Varah
Susan Whanslaw
in 1940
at: (
51.5,-0.133333333
)
...
727873
Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
Khalifa Muhammad Hamidullah
in 1940
...
713290
John F. Kennedy
Why England Slept
in 1940
...
400025
Ernest Hemingway
Martha Gellhorn
in 1940
...
716275
Ernest Hemmingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
in 1940
...
302624

Mahatma Gandhi
in 1940
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714546

Mahatma Gandhi
in 1940
...
714547
Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory
in 1940
...
339764
T. S. Eliot
East Coker
in 1940
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713280
Benjamin, Walter
Geschichtsphilosophische Thesen/ Theses on the Phi
in 1940
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241737
Christina Stead
The Man Who Loved Children
in 1940
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339640

Tower Bridge
in 1940
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729560
Richard Wright
Native Son
in 1940
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309994
Dino Buzzati
The Tartar Steppe
in 1940
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339953

Vivien Leigh
in 1940
...
727296

Kuroki Tamemoto
in 1940
...
722954

Erwin Rommel
in 1940
at: (
27,30
)
...
-1729772

Sacre-Coeur Basilica, Paris
in 1940
...
730389

Orson Welles
in 1940
...
728856

Hugo Sperrle
in 1940
...
730904

Anne Frank
in 1940
...
715034

Eiffel Tower
in 1940
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730908

Sacre-Coeur Basilica, Paris
in 1940
...
730397

Golden Gate Bridge
in 1940
...
727582

George Orwell
in 1940
...
730654

Edward VIII
in 1940
...
724257

Frida Kahlo
with
Self Portrait Dedicated to Sigmund Firestone
in 1940
...
732193

George S Halas
in 1940
...
725283

Charlie Chaplin
in 1940
...
726054

Anne Shirley
in 1940
...
726567

Piccadilly Circus, London
in 1940
at: (
51.5,-0.133333333
)
...
-1735128

Tower Bridge
in 1940
at: (
51.5,-0.133333333
)
...
-1735127

Tower Bridge
in 1940
at: (
51.5,-0.133333333
)
...
-1735126

Edith Piaf
in 1940
...
725551

St. Pauls
in 1940
...
727343

St. Pauls
in 1940
...
727344

Mahatma Gandhi
in 1940
...
714544

Tower Bridge
in 1940
...
715313

Mahatma Gandhi
in 1940
...
714548

Josephine Baker
in 1940
at: (
48.85,2.35
)
...
-1728203

Mahatma Gandhi
in 1940
...
714549

Edith Piaf
in 1940
...
725558

Bill Brandt
in 1940
at: (
51.5,-0.133333333
)
...
-1728202

Tyrone Power
with
John Ford
in 1940
...
730680

Edith Piaf
in 1940
...
725566

Franklin D. Roosevelt
in 1940
...
730176

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
in 1940
...
731969

Barbara Stanwyck
in 1940
...
734785

Rosemary Lane
in 1940
...
726594

Willem de Kooning
with
Seated Woman
in 1940
...
732227

Albert Einstein
in 1940
...
716615

William Lyon Mackenzie King
in 1940
...
731217

Edward Maufe
in 1940
...
722773

Frank Sinatra
in 1940
...
730975

Trafalgar Square
in 1940
...
723809

Palace of Westminster
in 1940
...
723810

William Faulkner
in 1940
...
728170

Lou Thesz
with
Maurice Tillet
in 1940
...
730475

Park Chung-hee
in 1940
...
728433

Golden Gate Bridge
in 1940
...
715377

John F. Kennedy
in 1940
...
716403

Anne Frank
in 1940
at: (
52.36666667,4.9
)
...
-1731979

Adolf Hitler
in 1940
at: (
52.36666667,9.716666667
)
...
-1727366

Rita Hayworth
in 1940
...
723579

Conchita Cintr?n
in 1940
...
722301

Vivien Leigh
in 1940
...
723837

Don McNeill
in 1940
...
723582

Robert Wadlow
in 1940
...
725405

Paul McCartney
in 1940
...
725919

Anne Frank
in 1940
...
726957

Arc de Triomphe Paris
in 1940
...
725683

Ernest Hemingway
in 1940
at: (
44.2394,-114.5103
)
...
-1727821

Golden Gate Bridge
in 1940
...
723381

Arc de Triomphe Paris
in 1940
...
725685

Joachim von Ribbentrop
in 1940
...
726710

Lana Turner
in 1940
at: (
34.05,-118.25
)
...
-1728330

Arc de Triomphe Paris
in 1940
...
725689

Andr? Mathieu
in 1940
...
730556
French Indochina
Part of World War II
in 1940
...
8893

Palace of Westminster
in 1940
...
723391
Thailand
Franco-Thai War
in 1940
...
8895

St. Pauls
in 1940
...
723394
Vichy France
Franco-Thai War
in 1940
...
8898

Piccadilly Circus, London
in 1940
...
730563

Winston Churchill
in 1940
...
713933

George LaVatta
in 1940
...
722136

Fred Astaire
in 1940
...
729561

Jesse Cornplanter
in 1940
...
722139

John F. Kennedy
in 1940
...
716258

United States Capitol
in 1940
...
716263

Al Jolson
in 1940
at: (
25.78333333,-80.21666667
)
...
-1728022

Mickey Mouse
in 1940
...
729835

Lana Turner
in 1940
...
730603

Franklin D. Roosevelt
with
Katharine Hepburn
in 1940
at: (
40.66666667,-73.93333333
)
...
-1722636

Wilhelm Keitel
in 1940
at: (
46,2
)
...
-1732107

Farouk I
in 1940
at: (
27,30
)
...
-1729796
Franklin D. Roosevelt
US Supreme Court Justice
in 1940
...
356864

Emil Nolde
in 1940

Frühmorgenflug [Early Morning Flight]

...
746754

Harold Wyllie
with
Air and Naval Battle off Spurn Head
in 1940
...
740613

New York Times Square
with
Lou Stoumen
in 1940

Times Square in the Rain, 1940. Photograph by Lou Stoumen.

...
-1715960



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