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label Round 1

• Year 1949
• Country Germany
• Coords location_on 52.48493, 13.34423
• Description West Berliners gathered on 12 May 1949 to celebrate the end of the 11-month Soviet blockade, one of the first major international crises of the Cold War, pictured from the Schoenberg City Hall beneath the flags of the Western Allies.
• License Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo

label Round 2

• Year 2009
• Country China
• Coords location_on 31.82985, 104.45689
• Description Mourners walking into the ruins of Beichuan, Sichuan Province, China, on the first anniversary of its destruction by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake on 12 May 2008. The town has been preserved in its devastated state as a permanent open-air museum and memorial to the victims.
• License Imaginechina Limited / Alamy Stock Photo

label Round 3

• Year 1976
• Country Turkey
• Coords location_on 41.02127, 39.57242
• Description A street scene in the Akçaabat district of Trabzon, Turkey, during the mid 70s.
• License Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University, CC BY-SA 3.0 PL, via Wikimedia Commons

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label Round 4

• Year 1958
• Country Hungary
• Coords location_on 47.48304, 19.06661
• Description Guests walking across the cobblestones of Bakáts Square in Budapest, Hungary, during a wedding ceremony.
• License Fortepan / Hámori Gyula

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label Round 5

• Year 1994
• Country USA
• Coords location_on 40.90909, -74.16359
• Description A float carrying a statue of San Rocco being escorted by members of the Knights of Columbus during the annual Comitato Festa Patronale San Rocco procession in Paterson, New Jersey. The event honors the 14th-century saint, revered as a patron of the sick.
• License David Alan Taylor / Working in Paterson Project collection, 1993-2002 (AFC 1995/028), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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