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The Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew crying on national television while announcing the separation of Singapore from Malaysia, 1965. (2000x1128)

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Polish fighters executed by German troops during the Warsaw Uprising. 23 September 1944

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The end of a 600-year era, as the last Ottoman sultan, Vahidettin, leaves the country. November 17 1922.

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Keith Richards ( Rolling Stones ) with His Mum Doris in 1945.

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This photo of Queen Victoria and Napoleon III taken in 1855. It’s the only known photo of a British Monarch and a French Monarch together.

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High Ranking Iranian Officers begging the Shah to not leave Iran. Iran, 1979

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Emperor Hirohito playing shogi with his son, Prince Akihito. Japan, 1955

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Honor ceremony for French paratroops killed in a 1984 terrorist bombing in Beirut, Lebanon

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80 Years ago: The Liberation of Hoensbroek Castle's Orphans by the U.S. 30th Infantry and 2nd armoured division, Hoensbroek, Netherlands. 18 September 1944 to March 1945.

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An officer of the German Afrika Korps is interrogated by French troops at a prisoner of war camp near Maktar, Tunisia in April 1943.

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Cliff Palace that was built by the ancestral Puebloans in Mesa Verde - southwestern Colorado, USA - photo by Finnish-Swedish scholar Gustaf Nordenskiöld, c. 1891.

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