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c. 1929: A movable lifeguard tower in Germany.

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Another day at work for these lumberjacks in Oregon, 1918. (773×930)

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The expression on the exhausted face of Captain Francis Fenton of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines after he was told that his overwhelmed company was nearly out of supplies and ammunition but that they were ordered to keep fighting the North Koreans at No Name Ridge. September 1950.

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A wounded U.S. Marine raider with a piece of shrapnel in his brain awaits treatment on a litter outside a field hospital on Bougainville, 5 January 1944

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Soldiers from the Imperial Japanese 301st Independent Infantry Battalion, with their equipment - taking a rest, after an unopposed amphibious landing on Attu Island, Aleutians, Alaska Territory of the U.S., on June 7th, 1942.

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Prince Albert on his deathbed in Windsor Castle, December 16, 1861

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Voroshilov, Molotov, Stalin and no one else walking along the banks of the Moscow-Volga Canal, 1937

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Last photo ever taken of congressman Leo Ryan, resting briefly after investigating the situation at the "Jonestown" religious colony, 1978. The stain on his shirt is from being stabbed after members told Ryan of their desire to escape. Within hours Ryan & hundreds of others were murdered. (800x1127)

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Following the fashion of the moment nuns practice hula-hoop. Oklahoma USA, 1958.

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New Years Eve in the 1920s (564×846)

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Burning of sacred texts previously kept in the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, during the Cultural Revolution. 1968

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12 year old anti-child labor speaker, Iqbal Masih from Pakistan, who was forced into slave labor at a carpet facory at age 4, jubilates as he is introduced as one of five recipients to receive a Reebok Human Rights Award, Dec. 7, 1994, in Boston. He would be murdered 4 months later.

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