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Dr. Elizabeth Bruyn is sitting in the back of her horse-drawn ambulance. 1911.

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Omayra Sánchez is trapped in the debris from the Nevado del Ruiz volcano eruption. On 13 Nov 1985, Nevado del Ruiz began to erupt. Volcanic debris mixed with ice formed massive lahars, which rushed into the valleys below, killing 23k people and destroying 14 villages (Armero, Colombia)

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The far-left Japanese People's Front, the far-right United Front Volunteer Army, and the Yakuza front organization Ninkyo Shimin Rengo, which unite and march against the anti-yakuza law. (1992)

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Irish family from Carraroe, County Galway, starving during the Great Famine (1845-52)

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Germans set fire to a Serbian village. 1941 (355 × 480)

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Leader of anti-yakuza protesters reading a recommendation of dissolution in front of the Kyokuryu-kai boss's house during the 6th Okinawa Yakuza War. (1990)

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An American infantry camp in Russia during the Siberian Expedition. The troops were part of the Allied intervention on the side of the Whites during the Russian Civil War, Siberia, December 1918 .

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Shell shocked marine, battle of Hue, 1968 by Donald McCullin (1024x788)

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One year after end of communist rule, a Polish man leaning on his small car, selling shoes at a public market, in the capital city Warsaw, Poland, c. 1992.

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Ronald Reagan eating a forkful of jambalaya, a traditional Cajun dish (New Orleans, Louisiana 1980)

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Judy Garland and her daughter Liza Minnelli in London, ca 1964

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J. Robert Oppenheimer and Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves Jr. at Ground Zero, c. September 1945

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