Erotic scene from the Persian Safavid period c1660. Photo courtesy the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Make a donationErotic scene from the Persian Safavid period c1660. Photo courtesy the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Former child soldiers forced to join the Lord’s Resistance Army, seen here at an army child protection unit following their rescue by the Uganda People’s Defence Force. Gulu, Uganda, September 2004. Photo by Vanessa Vick/Redux
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A Japanese-American shopkeeper and graduate of the University of California unfurled a banner proclaiming ‘I am an American’ in the window of his grocery store in Oakland, California, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This photo was taken three months later, just prior to the man’s forced removal to an internment camp. Photo by Dorothea Lange
Portrait of an African Man ( c1525-30), by Jan Jansz Mostaert. This is the only known portrait of a black man in early European painting. He is thought to be Christophle le More, an archer who was a member of Emperor Charles V’s bodyguard. Photo courtesy the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The infamous ‘London fog’, seen here on 17 November 1949. Two generations after the Clean Air Act of 1956, London seems much cleaner with Congestion Charge and Ultra Low Emission zones. Photo by Keystone/Getty
Les Baigneuses (1912), by Albert Gleizes. Courtesy Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris/Wikipedia
Poster advertising the 1948 Superman series. Photo courtesy Getty Images