Fascinating photographs of historical moments that you've probably never seen before

Lost and found - Chief Superintendent William Gilbert lifts the World Cup in March, 1966. With him are Detective Chief Inspector William Little and Commander John Lawler. The trophy was stolen from the National Stamp Exhibition and found by Pickles, a dog out walking with his owner in Norwood, south London.

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Walt Disney - Studio portrait of future American film studio head Walt Disney as an infant, seated in an ornate chair, circa 1902

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After the 'quake - The ruins of San Francisco after the terrible April 1906 earthquake and fire.

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Conjoined twins - The most famous conjoined twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, circa 1865.

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Last words - The final page of Commander Robert Falcon Scott's journal recovered from the South Pole in 1912 by a search party eight months after all members of the expedition died returning from the Pole.

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The Gold Rush - A caravan of prospectors arriving at the snowy wastes of the Klondike in Canada to join the great Gold Rush, circa 1895.

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Iron man - The makeshift suit of armor worn by Australian folk hero and bushranger Ned Kelly during his years as an outlaw from the British authorities.

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Dubai before the skyscrapers - The mouth of Dubai Creek, 1978.

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'Salvator Mundi' - A Christie's staff member poses with a painting by Leonardo da Vinci entitled 'Salvator Mundi.' It sold for a record-breaking US$450 million in November, 2017.

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Flying past giants - Air Force One flying over Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, USA.

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Dead Sea Scrolls go digital - A color digital image (left) of a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the same fragment as seen by a high resolution single wavelength infrared imager.

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Life on Mars? -

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover exploring the "Red Planet" on January 23, 2018.

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Movie time - Author H.G. Wells with actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin in the offices of the film production company Stoll Pictures, London, 1921.

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Romantic mood - With French move star Alain Delon in the picture, Mick Jagger feels a little left out.

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Dancing on the roof - Fred Astaire dances on the roof of the Savoy Hotel in London with his sister and dance partner, Adele.

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Family holiday - Osama bin Laden poses in a family photo while on holiday in Sweden in 1970.

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Professional teacher - American baseball player George Herman Ruth, known as 'Babe' Ruth, shows a child how to hold a bat in the Yankee stadium.

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Grandfather and grandchildren - Alfred Hitchcock plays in the snow with his grandchildren, 1960.

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"Whirl of the World" - On the "Whirl of the World" fairground attraction at Wembley, London, August 1924.

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Super fashionable - Members of the 'Younger Set' of Baltimore show off the trend for painting the faces of their best friends on their knees, circa 1925.

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Photo by the pool - Women pose for a photo in Chiswick Baths, London, May 1920.

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Fan photos - Three sisters, Elizabeth, Helen, and Margaret Hay, photograph film stars Douglas Fairbanks Senior and Charlie Chaplin, September 1922.

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Warm up - British featherweight boxer Ben Callicott trains ahead of a match with Ernie Rice, April 11, 1921.

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Egyptian dancer - Canadian dancer Christina Dukette dressed in an Egyptian costume, March 1923.

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Bizarre pet - Salvador Dalí taking his pet anteater for a stroll in Paris, 1969.

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In fashion! - This photo taken from a New York high-rise illustrates how fashionable headwear was in 1939.

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Snowball fight - Students at the University of Princeton after a snowball fight in 1893.

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When technology arrives - A five-megabyte IBM computer is delivered, 1956.

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Bridging the gap - People cross an improvised bridge made out of chairs during a flood in Paris in 1924.

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Party in prison - Literary genius Ernest Hemingway in prison after one of his parties.

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Protest - Women protest against a law obliging them to wear a hijab after the Islamic Revolution.

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Titanic - The last photo of the Titanic at sea, in 1912.

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Titanic survivors - Some of the survivors of the 15 April, 1912, Titanic disaster.

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Star pet - Audrey Hepburn goes shopping with her new pet, a deer, in 1958.

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Fashion arrives in the Soviet Union - Dior models turn heads in the USSR, 1956.

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Got a light? - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has his cigar lit by an admirer during World War II.

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The arrival of Coca-Cola - French café customers in 1950 see a bottle of Coca-Cola for the first time.

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Untouched - The intact seal on the tomb of Tutankhamen, in 1922. It was left untouched for 3,245 years.

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Break time - Two men taking a cigarette break on top of the RCA Building during its construction in 1932.

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Building upon an empire - Construction workers clowning around on the 59th floor of the Pan American Building in New York, June 16, 1962.

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The 'King' ties the knot - Elvis Presley cutting the six-tier wedding cake with his bride Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, May 1, 1967.

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The Great Depression - Two men walking towards Los Angeles, California, in America's Depression-era 1930s

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A future president - A young lad called Barack Obama practices his baseball swing.

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East Berlin - East German border guards approach a bus carrying about 12 East Germans, which tried to break through the Sandkrug Bridge between the Soviet and British sectors in Berlin, May 14, 1963.

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Back on Earth - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space, driving through the streets of London in a convertible with a personalized number plate 'YG 1,' July 11, 1961.

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Rush-hour motorway traffic - The M1 Motorway near Luton, UK, built to link London with Birmingham, pictured November 11, 1959.

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Child labor - Child laborer working in a South Carolina cotton mill, portrayed by pioneering photojournalist Lewis Hine in 1908.

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Thunderbird is go! - Hollywood heartthrob Clark Gable is all smiles in his Thunderbird sports car, idling in neutral on January 1, 1955.

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Nagasaki dstroyed - View of the radioactive plume from the bomb dropped on Nagasaki City, as seen from 9.6 km away, in Koyagi-jima, Japan, August 9, 1945.

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Recently discovered Inca ruins - Today a world famous tourist attraction, the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu in Peru as they looked circa 1930.

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Silent great - Silent comedy film star Buster Keaton with a wooden doll of himself, given to him as a gift by a German woodcarver.

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Ticker tape parade - A ticker tape parade to welcome US astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York, after their return from the moon, 1969.

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