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Iraqis watching the trial of Saddam Hussein in a cafe along the river Tigres. (2004)

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"Keep the world clean" - Anti-Israel poster from a demonstration by the Norwiegian student of the Warsaw Medical University, 2023

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Children pose for their portrait in Massachusetts, early 1900s

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Baby Anne Frank in the arms of her mother Edith, with her older sister Margot standing nearby, June 1929

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September 1st 1975: Daniel "Chappie" James USAF becomes the first black American to be promoted to 4-Star General.

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Cairo Mary, bouncer at Shanghai Red's in San Pedro, California, escorts a customer to the door in 1953.

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My mom, sometime in the 80s.

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During the Battle of the Bulge, PFC Andy Masiero & Staff Sgt Urban Minicozzi of the 75th Infantry Division examine the headgear of PFC Masiero in the Ardennes. The young GI’s helmet was pierced by an enemy’s bullet which drew blood from his temple, but left him otherwise unscathed. 1944.

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Brexit is a monstrosity (2017)

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Assembling Sears and Roebuck catalogs in 1942.

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A member of the U.S. invasion force aims a .45 at the head of a Panamanian suspected of being a member of Manuel Noriega's defense forces who had shed his uniform and dressed in civilian clothing to escape detection, 1989.

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Iconic 1936 photograph of Lampião, Brazil’s greatest and most notorious outlaw.

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