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A bow on view of the British battleship HMS Rodney in 1936.[930 × 1355]
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Vultures Feeding on the Corpses of Victims of ‘Direct Action Day,’ Organised by the All India Muslim League in Kolkata, India, August 1946 [640x627]
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Steve Martin in the 60s
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This day in 1972, Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 Israeli athletes during the Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany, in an attack which is known as the Munich Massacre. The photo shows one of the kidnappers on the balcony of the building where the hostages were held at before they were killed
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A man with his dog , 1920s
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German cartoon from the Second World War (ca. 1943) showing an Englishman enjoying his garden unaware of the Soviet train speeding towards him.
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San Francisco's Cliff House, early 1900.
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Zhang Xueliang, the last surviving Chinese warlord, with his wife in Hawaii, 1990s. In 1936 he became notorious for kidnapping Chiang-Kai-Shek & forcing him to ally with the Chinese communists against the Japanese. He was later imprisoned by Chiang for over 50 years & died in 2001 at 100 (1349x1048)
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A biker group drinking beer and riding through underground tunnels on their motorcycles late at night, Moscow 1990.[1200x800]
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Strečno Castle, Slovakia
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One of the Palestinian terrorists who kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes during the Munich Massacre standing on a balcony. Happened this day in 1972 [500x359]
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Movie theater in Warsaw showing Apocalypse Now during Martial Law in Poland, December 14, 1981. [2311 × 3081]
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An East German woman smoking a cigarette at an outdoor restaurant - in the city of Dresden - in the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik), c. 1980s. [1170 x 775]
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Prince stands victorious over Charlie Murphy during a game of basketball, 1985.
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Actress Jill St. John - Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
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Mexican police holding the pickax that was used to kill Leon Trotsky, the Soviet exiled anti-Stalinist leader, 1940 (1300x1037)
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Public execution of Stutthof concentration camp personnel on 4 July 1946 by short-drop hanging. L to R , are female camp overseers Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Ewa Paradies, Elisabeth Becker, Wanda Klaff, and Gerda Steinhoff. Biskupia Górka Hill, Gdańsk.[868x620]
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Fourteen year old Mohawk and future Olympic gold medalist Waneek Horn-Miller cradling her younger sister after she herself was bayoneted in the chest by a Canadian soldier. Quebec, Oka Crisis, 26 September 1990. [780 x 439]
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On August 7th 1930, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were lynched in the town center of Marion, Indiana. Photographer Lawrence Beitler captured the scene, creating what became the most iconic photograph of lynching in America. The case was never solved.[1920 × 1518]
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Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner.Dorothea Lange 1936
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Dolbadarn Castle 🏰 Snowdonia, Wales, UK 🏰 [09.07]
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Classmates on the first day of the school in Beslan, 1st September 2004. No one survived from this photo.[1501x1000]
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Diana Princess of Wales, funeral procession, 6 September 1997. [2467x1644]
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Billy Waugh, one of the deadliest service members in U.S. SpecOps history. Considered the "Godfather of the Green Berets", he was part of the U.S.' first generation of special forces operators as part of the MACV-SOG in Vietnam. In this photo, taken in 2002, he is 71, hunting Osama Bin Laden.
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Join the free world // Russia // 2015
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A prison guard holds an iced drink as he watches inmates pick cotton at the Cummins Unit prison farm, the site of a former slave plantation, in Grady, Arkansas. As of 2001, inmates there harvest corn, cotton, and rice from the fields and are supervised by prison guards on horses, 1975 [2720 x 1110].
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Exactly 50 years ago, Manson Family member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme attempted to assassinate US President Ford in Sacramento, CA (September 5, 1975). This Newsweek cover shows her moments after her gun failed to fire. [1196x1600]
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On May 10th 1973 a man entered a bank in Kenora Ont. armed with a rifle and a "dead man's switch" connected to a bomb in his mouth. He was shot leaving the bank, activating the switch, detonating the bomb. His identity remains unknown. [1020x574]
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Rehabilitation clients wife, Jackson County, Ohio
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