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A taxi outside a New York hotel, circa 1950.

Photo: akg-images / Paul Almasy

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An Anglo-Saxon manuscript illumination, circa 1025-1050, of a Viking ship of war.

Photo: akg-images / British Library

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Orville Wright flies over Tempelhof Field, Berlin, on 4 September 1909.

Photo: akg-images

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Pierre Carrier-Belleuse's undated painting "The Omnibus", sold by Sotheby's in New York on 12 October 1994.

Photo: Sotheby's / akg-images

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A passenger waits on the platform at the Metro station Abbesses in Paris, circa 1965.

Photo: akg-images / Paul Almasy