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On this day in 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR exploded. This is the only known photo taken of reactor number 4 on the day of the explosion.

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USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Serbia, 1944

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Turkish and German soldiers posing at a cannoner drilling, in Galipoli 1914-1915

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A delegation of military attaches from Finland, Romania, Italy and Germany during a visit to Japanese occupied Dutch East Indies - March 25, 1942

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The last Mughal emperor – King of Delhi Bahadur Shah Zafar. Only two photographs of him are known, this one was taken around 1860, shortly before his death in 1862, when he was in exile in Rangoon after the Indian Uprising (1857-1859). Most of his sons were executed by the British.

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Surrender of German troops, Courland (May 9-10, 1945)

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Women (two wearing high heeled leather boots), sitting on a stone wall at the University of Sulaymaniyah – Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, Ba'athist era, c. 1979.

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A Chinese lady whose feet were bound from childhood. Late 1800s.

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An American soldier at Saddam Hussein's palace (Iraq) in 2003

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Leaders of “Karpatska Sich” Khust, March 1939

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The future king of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck with chicken, 1960s.

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Canadian soldiers swimming and relaxing nude on the Ottawa River, 1916

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On this day in 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR exploded. This is the only known photo taken of reactor number 4 on the day of the explosion.

USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Serbia, 1944

Turkish and German soldiers posing at a cannoner drilling, in Galipoli 1914-1915

A delegation of military attaches from Finland, Romania, Italy and Germany during a visit to Japanese occupied Dutch East Indies - March 25, 1942

The last Mughal emperor – King of Delhi Bahadur Shah Zafar. Only two photographs of him are known, this one was taken around 1860, shortly before his death in 1862, when he was in exile in Rangoon after the Indian Uprising (1857-1859). Most of his sons were executed by the British.

Surrender of German troops, Courland (May 9-10, 1945)

Women (two wearing high heeled leather boots), sitting on a stone wall at the University of Sulaymaniyah – Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, Ba'athist era, c. 1979.

A Chinese lady whose feet were bound from childhood. Late 1800s.

An American soldier at Saddam Hussein's palace (Iraq) in 2003

Leaders of “Karpatska Sich” Khust, March 1939

The future king of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck with chicken, 1960s.

Canadian soldiers swimming and relaxing nude on the Ottawa River, 1916