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Telegraph office in the Vatican (Rome, Italy 1912)

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Sir Oswald Mosley takes the salute from some fascist friends, 1936. .

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Pro and anti abortion demonstrators in Binnenhof, Netherlands, 30 October 1974

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The train carrying Zhang Zuolin after it exploded at the Huanggutun Railway Station. Zhang Zuolin was a Chinese warlord who ruled Manchuria from 1916 to 1928. The explotion had been plotted and committed by the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army (Shenyang, China 1928)

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A group of astronaut candidates take a break during their training. In the coming years, they will be the first five American women in space. circa August 1978. .

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Trịnh Tố Tâm being awarded the "Heroic American Killer" medal for the 53rd time, 1971

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78-year-old Robert T. Lincoln (son of Abraham Lincoln) is helped up the steps at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., 1922.

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A grocery store clerk in Tallahassee, Florida, 1962

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American B-24 Liberator 'Sandman' during a bomb run over the Ploiești Astra Română refinery during Operation Tidal Wave, August 1, 1943

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Aerial photo of the battlefield of Verdun (Main heights on the right bank of the Meuse river) taken in 1916.

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Bombed out town of Shabats along Serbia's frontier with Austria-Hungary, October 1914

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Opening ceremony of the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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