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A young Bosnian woman holding an AK-47. Smokes a cigarette as she waits for a funeral service in Sarajevo (1992)

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106 year-old William Casby holding his great-great-granddaughter. He was born into slavery in Danville, Virginia in 1857, worked as a longshoreman, and lived to be 113, photograph by Richard Avedon, 1963

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Ann Hodges was the only human being in recorded history to be hit by a meteorite 1954 in Sylacauga

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My parents on one of their first dates, early 1950's.

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The Soviet Union flag is lowered and the Russian flag is raised over the Kremlin. December 25, 1991.

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Exhaust U.S. Army nurse Amy Stuart, 5th MASH unit in Saudí 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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"Divorce Leads Children to the Worst Places" Iranian Cartoon by Behrouz Firoozi, 2013

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Grave of three German soldiers on the Havel River, Berlin, 1946.

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My gggg-great grandmother. Today is her 174th birthday. She died in 1912 from gangrene of the limb. I don’t know when exactly this photo was taken.

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Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt, being carried away after a car bomb explosion near his house in Beirut aimed at his life on January 12, 1982.

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Viet Cong operative Nguyen Van Lem collapses immediately after being shot and killed by ARVN General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. His execution was captured on camera and seen by millions worldwide. February 1, 1968. Cholon District, Saigon.

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Marilyn Monroe's first husband was James "Jim" Dougherty, a 21-year-old factory worker whom she married on June 19, 1942, at age 16 to avoid returning to an orphanage. They were neighbors in California, and the marriage lasted four years before they divorced in 1946.

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