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Sikhs protecting the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem. Ottoman Empire, c. 1900.

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Rundstedt, Mussolini and Hitler, Russia 1941. (798 × 548)

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Residents of the Iranian capital relax in the mountains near Tehran, 1990s .

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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell holding a model vial of anthrax while giving a presentation to the United Nations Security Council on Iraq's alleged chemical weapon program. 5 February 2003

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A young soldier and his mother right before he left for WWI in 1917. (768×960)

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Central Kyiv, Maidan Square as seen by John Steinbeck right after WW2, 1946

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Man eating rice, China (1901-1904)

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Itamar Ben-Gvir, a 19-year-old Kahanist, holds an ornament which he stole from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's car. On live TV, he declared, "We got to his car, and we'll get to him too." Weeks later, Rabin was assassinated. Ben-Gvir is now Israel's Minister of National Security, 1995 .

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Laboratory technician holding an anthrax-laced letter sent to American Senator Patrick Leahy. October 9 2001

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Jean-Marie Loret, alleged illegitimate French son of Hitler in the 1970s. According to Loret, an "unknown Prussian soldier" listed in documents as his father in 1917, later became dictator. The consensus among historians on these claims is that they are unlikely or impossible to prove.

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Two Afghan women walk past the huge cavity where one of the ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan, known to locals as the "Father Buddha," used to stand, Afghanistan, June 17, 2012.

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Malcolm X gets transported from the Audubon Ballroom to the hospital after he was shot in 1965. He later succumbed to his 21 gunshot and ten buckshot wounds.

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