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Women entertaining G.l.s, Tae Song Dong, South Korea photograph by René Burri (1961).
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German-American tavern owner John Schrank smiles with police. Sometime earlier, he attempted to assassinate former President Theodore Roosevelt. circa October 1912.
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Dance hall, 1930s. Filipino men dating and dancing with white women was a contributing factor in riots and violent assaults targeting Filipino American workers
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Gate Pā atop Pukehinahina ridge, circa 1864. During the Tauranga campaign (part of the New Zealand Wars), an outnumbered Māori force successfully repulsed a British attack on the pā before withdrawing in the night.
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Chinese authorities deploying tear gas against marchers protesting the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, June 4th, 1989. .
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Legionnaires marching up the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway in lower Manhattan during a parade honoring the return of U.S. troops from Desert Storm. June 10, 1991
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American gas station owned by Pan-Gas in the 1920s, before the Great Depression.
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Ottoman flag surrendered over to the King of Montenegro, Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš – from the Balkan League, in Scutari (Scutari Province, Ottoman Empire) – after the end of the Siege of Scutari, April 23rd, 1913.
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A carrier crew of 8th Rifle Brigade hands out chocolate to Dutch civilians during the advance of 11th Armoured Division in Holland, 22 September 1944.
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Shell hitting the Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral, World War I, September 19, 1914
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Boy soldiers of Battalion Miotła ("Mop") during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. All 3 boys survived the Uprising and the reprisal punishment action, in which 150-200 thousand people were killed .
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