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Irish revolutionary and politician Michael Collins (1890 - 1922) delivers an impassioned speech to a large crowd in Dublin, Ireland, late 1921 or 1922. (Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images)
British archaeologists Howard Carter (1874 – 1939) (left) and Arthur Callender (died 1937) carry out the systematic removal of objects from the antechamber of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, better known as King Tut, with the assistance of an Egyptian laborer, Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, 1923.
All-Union Congress of Soviets. The beginning of the U.S.S.R. (L. Kotlyarov., oil.) The First All-Union Congress of Soviets was a congress of representatives of Soviets of workers, peasants and Red Army deputies, held on December 30, 1922 in Moscow. The congress was attended by 2215 delegates. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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