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The serbian Black Hand terrorist group which later assasinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. 1911-1915.

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Operators on a switchboard 1960s

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Suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem being escorted by South Vietnamese soldiers, just moments before his infamous execution, which was caught on camera. Saigon during the Tet Offensive, February 1968.

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"Some have no comment" (Dana Summers, 1988)

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Soviet officials view the remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov after the Soyuz 1 crash, USSR, April 1967

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Drivers license in 1974

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in 1991 Bernie Sanders delivered a speech to an empty U.S congress, advising against military intervention in the Gulf War.

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Arrest photos of IRA members Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan, taken after the two assassinated fanatically anti-Irish British Field Marshal Henry Wilson on his front doorstep in London. The ensuing crisis was the immediate trigger for the Irish Civil War (Wandsworth Prison, 1922) .

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Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi sobbing during the funeral of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser, 1970. Gaddafi idolized Nasser & considered him to be his personal hero, he was so distraught throughout the service that he fainted multiple times (856x820)

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Two students take a smoking break at the Chelsea Arts Ball in 1954.

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“Second Amendment Scoreboard” (2010)

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American film actress Veronica Lake illustrates what can happen to women war workers who wear their hair long while working at their benches, in a factory somewhere in America, on November 9, 1943.

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