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A young King Abdullah II bin al-Hussen on Star Trek Voyager in 1999

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Meal time at an orphanage in Osaka. Japan, 1951

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18 year old Leonard Russo of HQ Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, during the Battle of the Bulge near Bütgenbach Belgium - January 1945

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WSG Hoffmann, a neo-Nazi group operating legally in Germany until 1980. (c. 1978)

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Irish soldiers preforming a stop and search. c.1940

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PFC George Bruce Kelly of Clappertown, PA was Killed in Action 80 years ago today (January 10, 1945) during the Battle of the Bulge near Bütgenbach, Belgium. He was only 24 years old.

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Randy Weaver, target of the Ruby Ridge siege, points to bullet holes in his cabin door during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Sept 6, 1995. His wife, Vickie, was killed after FBI sniper fire penetrated the door while she was holding her infant daughter.

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Lockheed Martin employee Sally Wadsworth working on the fuselage of a P-38 Lightning, California, 1944. .

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Nguyen Van Thuan, Vietnamese Cardinal who endured nine years of solitary confinement under the Viet Cong, during which he still celebrated Mass with smuggled bread and wine, and passed down messages of hope to his persecuted flock. (c. 1971)

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The Chicago Boys, a group of Chilean economists trained by Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago, and tasked by the Pinochet dictatorship with overhauling Chile's economy by drafting drastic neoliberal reforms. Circa 1960

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Pallbearers Carry General George S. Patton, Jr.'s Casket Through the Station at Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, on Its Way to the Cemetery, 1945. Patton's last wish was to be buried with his men, not at West Point as was originally planned.

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