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Ukrainian and Polish troops in Kyiv on Khreschatyk after the liberation of the city from the Bolsheviks, May 7, 1920

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An Italian Boy Giving Flowers To An American Soldier Whose Tank Had Stopped On The Edge Of Rome, Italy In June 1944.

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Fort Douaumont at the beginning of Battle of Verdun. This fort became the symbol of the battle, seeing extensive combat up until it's recapture by French in October 1916. It's remnants are preserved to this day.

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“Desert Rats” of the SAS on patrol in North Africa, January 18, 1943.

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A police officer (hard at work) issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini 1957.

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FBI agents investigate the car in which John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, responsible for the sniper attacks in DC, were arrested. 24 October 2002.

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4.05.1970 John Filo with a camera in hand, overlooking the National Guardsmen near students protesting expanding the US involvement in Vietnam war, the day of Kent State Massacre

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Two Turkish wrestlers and a former Greek wrestler (right, Antionio Pierri "the terrible Greek") during a Greco-Roman wrestling competition in the United States in 1909.

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Iranian student on the streets of Tehran – during the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty, bringing in the Islamic Republic, c. January 1978 - February 1979.

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British Army Bomb Defusal Specialist draws a crowd as he inspects a suspicious package during the Pro-CCP Riots in Hong Kong (1967)

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The gunner of an M48 Patton looks through his sight during the Vietnam war. Winner of the World Press Photo of the Year contest, 1967. Taken by Co Rentmeester.

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Cult leader and self-proclaimed messiah of Koreshanity, Cyrus Teed pictured after 3 days of laying dead in a bathtub. His followers expected him to rise from the dead. (Dec 25, 1908)

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