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The Alto Knights Year : 2025 USA Director : Barry Levinson Robert De Niro-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1956 November 09: 1 koruna ultramarine postage stamp depicting Electric Locomotive 'Type E499.0', which was built in 1954. European Freight Train Timetable Conference in Prague. Forum Train Europe (FTE) is an international organization based in Bern, Switzerland. FTE serves as the primary coordination and exchange platform for Europe's railway undertakings in the area of timetabling and capacity management. The work of FTE and its members is ultimately aimed at promoting increased and improved freight and passenger rail connections in Europe-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1956 November 09: 60 haléř indigo postage stamp depicting Steam locomotive 'Rady 477', which was built in 1955. European Freight Train Timetable Conference in Prague. Forum Train Europe (FTE) is an international organization based in Bern, Switzerland. FTE serves as the primary coordination and exchange platform for Europe's railway undertakings in the area of timetabling and capacity management. The work of FTE and its members is ultimately aimed at promoting increased and improved freight and passenger rail connections in Europe-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1956 November 09: 40 haléř green postage stamp depicting Steam locomotive 'Rady 534', which was built in 1945. European Freight Train Timetable Conference in Prague. Forum Train Europe (FTE) is an international organization based in Bern, Switzerland. FTE serves as the primary coordination and exchange platform for Europe's railway undertakings in the area of timetabling and capacity management. The work of FTE and its members is ultimately aimed at promoting increased and improved freight and passenger rail connections in Europe-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1956 November 09: 30 haléř gray postage stamp depicting Steam locomotive 'Kladno', which was built in 1855. European Freight Train Timetable Conference in Prague. Forum Train Europe (FTE) is an international organization based in Bern, Switzerland. FTE serves as the primary coordination and exchange platform for Europe's railway undertakings in the area of timetabling and capacity management. The work of FTE and its members is ultimately aimed at promoting increased and improved freight and passenger rail connections in Europe-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1956 November 09: 10 haléř brown postage stamp depicting Steam locomotive 'Zbraslav', which was built in 1846. European Freight Train Timetable Conference in Prague. Forum Train Europe (FTE) is an international organization based in Bern, Switzerland. FTE serves as the primary coordination and exchange platform for Europe's railway undertakings in the area of timetabling and capacity management. The work of FTE and its members is ultimately aimed at promoting increased and improved freight and passenger rail connections in Europe-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1956 June 23: 30 haléř blue postage stamp depicting portrait of Frana Sramek, Czechoslovakian writer. Fráňa Šrámek was a Czech impressionist and vitalist poet, novelist, playwright and anarchist. In 1885 his family relocated to Písek, where he lived for a long time and much of his work was created in and about this town. After study he joined the military for a period of about a year, but was forced to continue service for another due to bad behavior. In 1914 he fell ill with rheumatism-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1956 April 25: 75 haléř brown and lemon postage stamp depicting Athletes and Olympic Rings. XVI Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne November 22 — December 8. Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1956. These Games were the first to be staged in the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania, as well as the first to be held outside Europe and North America-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1956 April 25: 45 haléř dark blue and carmine postage stamp depicting Girls Basketball Players. 5th European Womens’ Basketball Championship. Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It was first played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. Now, basketball is one of the most popular and fastest growing sports in the world. There are multiple professional leagues and tournaments for professional women basketball players. The strongest European women's basketball clubs participate in the EuroLeague Women-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1956 March 17: 45 haléř brown postage stamp depicting view of Marianske Lazne (Marienbad). Issued to publicize Czechoslovakian spas. Mariánské Lázně is a spa town in Cheb District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. Most of the town's buildings come from its Golden Era in the second half of the 19th century, when many celebrities and top European rulers came to enjoy the curative carbon dioxide springs. The town centre with the spa cultural landscape is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument reservation-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1956 February 20: 60 haléř dark violet-blue postage stamp depicting Metallurgical plant K. Gottwald at Ostrava. Products of Czechoslovakian industries, 2nd Five-Year Plan-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1956 February 20: 25 haléř dark carmine-rose postage stamp depicting Building construction. Products of Czechoslovakian industries. Inscribed: “Druhy Petilety Plan 1956-1960”-stock-photo
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Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. Portrait of Julie Andrews (b. 1935) and Rex Harrison (Sir Reginald Carey Harrison: 1908-1990) in the musical My Fair Lady, publicity photo, 1957-stock-photo
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'Faith and Confidence', photograph of police officer Maurice Cullinane talking to 2-year-old Allan Weaver during a Chinese New Year parade in Chinatown in Washington, D.C. Winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.-stock-photo
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'Bomber Crashes in Street', photograph of the aftermath of the crash of a B-26 bomber in a residential area in East Meadow, New York. This image was singled out as an 'outstanding example' of the work of the Daily News staff in their shared citation for the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.-stock-photo
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New York, New York. Class in citizenship and English for Italians given free of charge at the Hudson Park Library on Seventh Avenue near Bleeker Street --stock-photo
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New York, New York. Class in citizenship and English for Italians given free of charge at the Hudson Park Library on Seventh Avenue near Bleeker Street --stock-photo
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New York, New York. Class in citizenship and English for Italians given free of charge at the Hudson Park Library on Seventh Avenue near Bleeker Street --stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1955 August 8: 1.40 koruna sepia and cream postage stamp depicting Butterfly Papilio machaon, the Old World swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1955 May 12: 30 haléř violet postage stamp depicting Foundry Worker. Issued to publicize the Third congress of the Trade Union Revolutionary Movement. A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal into a mold, and removing the mold material after the metal has solidified as it cools. The most common metals processed are aluminum and cast iron. However, other metals, such as bronze, brass, steel, magnesium, and zinc, are also used to produce castings in foundries-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1955 May 5: 60 haléř sepia postage stamp depicting Russian totalitarian tyrant Stalin (Dzhugashvili) Memorial at Prague. 10th anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s liberation. On 8 May 1944, Beneš signed an agreement with Soviet leaders stipulating that 'Czechoslovak territory liberated by Soviet armies' would be placed under Czechoslovak civilian control. On 21 September, Czechoslovak troops formed in the Soviet-liberated village, Kalinov, which was the first liberated settlement of Slovakia, located near the Dukla Pass in northeastern part of the country-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1955 May 5: 60 haléř cerise postage stamp depicting artwork Children Greeting Soldier. 10th anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s liberation. On 8 May 1944, Beneš signed an agreement with Soviet leaders stipulating that 'Czechoslovak territory liberated by Soviet armies' would be placed under Czechoslovak civilian control. On 21 September, Czechoslovak troops formed in the Soviet-liberated village, Kalinov, which was the first liberated settlement of Slovakia, located near the Dukla Pass in northeastern part of the country-stock-photo
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Vintage fashion of the 1930s -1950s  Three models outer clothing with fur hand muff isolated on white background-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1954 March 15: 1 koruna green postage stamp depicting Professions: Physician and baby. A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, underlying diseases, and their treatment-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1954 April 24: 1 koruna green postage stamp depicting portrait of Farm Woman. Attractive girl in summer dress wipes sweaty forehead with palm while holding big sheaf of wheat-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1954 September 25: 75 haléř deep blue postage stamp depicting Lathe operator. A lathe is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, threading and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis. Lathes are used in woodturning and metalworking. Most suitably equipped metalworking lathes can be used to produce most solids of revolution, plane surfaces, and screw threads or helices-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1954 September 25: 40 haléř dark brown postage stamp depicting Postwoman. A mail carrier, also referred to as a mailman, mailwoman, mailperson, postal carrier, postman, postwoman, postperson, person of post, letter carrier, or colloquially postie, is an employee of a post office or postal service who delivers mail and parcel post to residences and businesses. The term 'mail carrier' came to be used as a gender-neutral substitute for 'mailman' soon after women began performing the job-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1954 March 15: 20 haléř light violet postage stamp depicting Nurse. Nursing is a health care profession that 'integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence'. Nurses practice in many specialties with varying levels of certification and responsibility. Nurses comprise the largest component of most healthcare environments-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1953 June 19: 20 haléř dark violet-brown postage stamp depicting portrait of President Antonin Zapotocky, Czech communist, politician and statesman-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1953 June 19: 20 haléř dark violet-brown postage stamp depicting portrait of President Klement Gottwald (1896-1953), communist politician, who was the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1953 March 12: 1.50 koruna black postage stamp depicting portraits of Josef Pecka, Ladislav Zapotocky and Josef Hybes. 75th anniversary of the first congress of the Czech Social Democratic Party-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1953 March 12: 1.50 koruna black postage stamp depicting portrait of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Dzhugashvili). Death of Russian totalitarian tyrant on March 5, 1953. He was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He initially governed as part of a collective leadership, but consolidated power to become an absolute dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, while the totalitarian political system he created is known as Stalinism-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1952 March 28: 11 koruna dark blue on creme postage stamp depicting portrait of Jan Amos Komensky. 360th anniversary of the birth of Komensky, teacher and philosopher. He was a Czech scientist, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education. He served as the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren before becoming a religious refugee and one of the earliest champions of universal education. As an educator and theologian, he led schools and advised governments across Protestant Europe through the middle of the seventeenth century-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1952 March 28: 1.50 koruna dark brown on creme postage stamp depicting portrait of Jan Amos Komensky. 360th anniversary of the birth of Komensky, teacher and philosopher. He was a Czech scientist, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education. He served as the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren before becoming a religious refugee and one of the earliest champions of universal education. As an educator and theologian, he led schools and advised governments across Protestant Europe through the middle of the seventeenth century-stock-photo
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1951 February 17: 5 koruna gray-blue postage stamp depicting portrait of Julius Fucik (Fučík), journalist, critic, writer, an active member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. He was imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo in Prague, and executed in Berlin. While in prison, Fučík recorded his interrogation experiences on small pieces of paper, which were smuggled out and published after the war as Notes from the Gallows. The book established Fučík as a symbol of resistance to oppression, as well as an icon of communist propaganda-stock-photo
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Ducati Aurea 125 from 1961 in original unrestored condition-stock-photo
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Ducati Aurea 125 from 1961 in original unrestored condition-stock-photo
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Ducati Aurea 125 from 1961 in original unrestored condition-stock-photo
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Ducati Aurea 125 from 1961 in original unrestored condition-stock-photo
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Wettenberg, Germany. 26th July, 2025. The band Red Hot plays music from the 1950s. For the 34th time, the Golden Oldies Festival brings the period from the 1950s to the 1980s back to life with music, fashion and vintage cars. Credit: Christian Lademann/dpa/Alamy Live News-stock-photo