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Two knocked-out German tiger tanks stand inertly at the approach to Cori, Italy while the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division advances into the town. 28 May 1944.

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Gas mask testing on Governor's Island, 1928 (colorized)

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U.S. Marines from the scuttled USS Yosemite in Guam, an island that was recently acquired by the U.S. from Spain following the Spanish-American War (December 1900)

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The arsenal of weapons found in the "death car" of Bonnie & Clyde, May 23, 1934.

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Flamingos in the Bathroom - In 1992 Miami Zoo placed 30 flamingos in the bathroom to protect them from Hurricane Andrew

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Helmet with a built in communication device so that the riders can communicate to each others - 1960s.

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Protestors pickets a theater showing the 1946 Walt Disney film "Song of the South" in Oakland, California (April 2, 1947)

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Putin was cooked for by Gordon Ramsay in 2000 when the President visited the British Prime Minister. Ramsay said ‘I genuinely did s*** myself. I was thinking “Could you imagine if you food poisoned these two. Could you imagine the kind of s*** I would get if I took these two down.”

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Bergen-Belsen, Germany, 1945, Dead children lying on the ground, after the liberation (NSFW)

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Prisoners from the Herero and Nama tribes. In January 1904, the Herero and the Nama people rebelled against German colonial rule. Between 24,000 and 100,000 Hereros and 10,000 Nama died, it was the first genocide of the 20th century (German South West Africa 1904)

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The Hollywood sign. The last four letters were removed when the sign was refurbished in 1949.

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