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A restored U.S. FJ-4B Fury naval jet fighter of the 1950s (top) flying in echelon with two restored Soviet fighters of the same era—a MiG-17 (middle) and a MiG-15 (bottom).

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Still from the film Deliverance, 1919. The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. View shows Keller in the cockpit/front seat of an airplane.

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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

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Town of Sisimiut located on the coast of the Davis Strait on Kangerluarsunnguaq Bay, Greenland

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Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)

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Law legal system crime concept with gavel and scales of justice with books in the background. (mallet, judicial system).

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Happy, smiling, flying pig

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Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar

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Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds

U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds flying in formation.

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fighter aircraft

fighter aircraft

Fighters in formation at an air show at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. From left,...

Ben Bloker/U.S. Air Force

A restored U.S. FJ-4B Fury naval jet fighter of the 1950s (top) flying in echelon with two restored Soviet fighters of the same era—a MiG-17 (middle) and a MiG-15 (bottom).

A restored U.S. FJ-4B Fury naval jet fighter of the 1950s (top) flying in echelon...

© Tyson V. Rininger/www.tvrphotography.com

Blue Angels

Blue Angels

Blue Angels fighter jets flying in formation.

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