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commedia dell'arte: Harlequin; Pierrot
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Buster Keaton sitting on the floor with a film camera on top of him, as if the camera fell on Keaton.
Laurel and Hardy in The Flying Deuces, 1939
Keystone Kops
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Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)
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The World’s 5 Most Commonly Used Writing Systems
Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.
7 Deadliest Weapons in History
Ahura Mazda - relief of the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda at the ancient ruins of Persepolis in Iran. Also known as Ormazd Zoroastrianism,
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commedia dell'arte: Harlequin; Pierrot
Keystone Kops
Watch Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Shemp Howard as the Three Stooges from the film “Sing a Song of Six Pants,” 1947
Buster Keaton sitting on the floor with a film camera on top of him, as if the camera fell on Keaton.
Laurel and Hardy in The Flying Deuces, 1939
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Mack Sennett.
Mack Sennett
Canadian-American director and producer
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy
American actor
Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
English actor and comedian
Bud Abbott
American actor
Lou Costello
American actor