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Exhausted U.S. Army nurse Amy Stuart, 5th MASH unit in Saudi Arabia naps on a cot while hugging a teddy bear sent by her family during Operation Desert Storm (Feb. 22, 1991)

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SS physician Eduard Krebsbach, 52, looks at a camera moments before his execution by hanging. Described as a "sadist of the worst sort", Krebsbach had a leading role in several thousand murders, including of 900 prisoners via injections of gasoline and phenol (Landsberg Prison, 1947) .

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Teenage girls fashion in 1907

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A soldier's return to his homeland. Vienna, Austria, 1946.

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"Why...Why didn't we listen?" (USA, 1950s)

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Soviet and US athletes at the opening ceremony of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, with Yugoslav athletes in between them (February 13, 1980)

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My first day of college, 1971

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Buddhas of Bamiyan statue in Afghanistan before its destruction in 1992.

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ATM surveillance image of Maura Murray on February 9, 2004, one of the last known photograph of her, taken just hours before she disappeared .

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My cousin and me, 1954

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My father with his mother, probably in the early 1950s

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Ottoman officer with his children and their dog, Istanbul, 1910s 🇹🇷(1024x1024)

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