Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

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Portrait photograph of woman, boy and two dogs, ca. 1890s.
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Juan and Evita Perón standing in a car waving, a soldier on horseback is beside the car
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US Marines fight rebellious Boxers outside Beijing Legation Quarter, 1900 – copy of painting by Sergeant John Clymer
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The Alcoholics Anonymous logo at a church. (Image by Rachel K)
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The University of Algiers, ca. 1920.
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