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Children as young as four or five were once used as jockeys at the popular Al Shahaniya track,…

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On the humid last day of February in 1951, a young Cypriot carpenter walked out of the Supreme…

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A father and son of the Jumma indigenous people of Bangladesh, photographed in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, bordering…

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A rare audio recording from 1967 of 11-year-old Tasmanian boy Bob Elliston, talking about his family’s successful efforts…

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This drawing depicts the separation of two young lovers, as one leaves to fight in the French Revolutionary…

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‘A Panama Makes a Man-o’-pa!’ by A. H. Lennie (c. 1905). Alexander Henderson Lennie (1890-1968) was a Glasgow-born…

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Former Chinese seaman Boon Juat Lee served in both the Australian and US armies in WW2, but he…

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James Waltham Curtis (c. 1839 – September 18, 1901), possibly born Charles James Waltham Curtis, was an English-born…

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Charles Wightman Sievwright (1800-1855), soldier and protector of Aborigines, was born on 31 March 1800 in Edinburgh, third…

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Boys in a Buddhist parade in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.