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Community barber shop in Kern County, California, 1936. (761×1225)

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The German Paris Gun, also known as the Kaiser Wilhelm Gun, was the largest gun of World War I. In 1918 the Paris Gun shelled Paris from 120 km (75 mi) away.

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Charles Bronson in 2001. The man dubbed "the most violent prisoner in Britain"

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A group of Papuans in Hollandia (now Jayapura) celebrates the UN rejection of Indonesia's claims to Dutch New Guinea. As a sign of loyalty, I carry a portrait of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. January 15, 1955.

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A family of sharecroppers is shown outside of their one room cabin style home, Georgia, 1930. (830×1116)

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Black smoke rises from the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in the aftermath of a fire that occurred while she was underway conducting air operations near Hawaii on 14 January 1969. 28 sailors were killed, 343 wounded, and 15 aircraft destroyed

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A menace to Society. The Padgett family. The entire family including the mother totally illiterate. No one could read or write. North Carolina, 1914. (765×570)

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A car driven by one of the hostages of Mikkeli hostage crisis. He was killed in the explosion that followed the escape. August 8, 1986

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Literal HistoryPorn- Noseart of B-24 Liberator “Stripped for Action” of the 308th Bomb Group, 425th Bomb Squadron, Air Service Command Agra, India, 28 October 1945

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The waist gunner of a B-29 Superfortress watches a trio of North American P-51 Mustang escorts flying close-in during a bombing mission over Japan, 1945

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A photo from the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying 45 people, including a rugby team, crashed in the Andes mountains,1972.

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"Point Lookout", Tennessee, 1880s. (1332×1440)

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