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Illustration of a sand timer laying on its side  with Ukrainian and Russian soldiers inside the two halves taking aim at each other.
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Fishermen cast their lines from a boat on Lake Maracaibo.
“The biggest oil deal in world history”
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This cover of the China Pictorial issued on 1 February 1960 features Chinese operatic soprano Guo Lanying
China’s Dolly Parton
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