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''The Thinker'' Auguste Rodin in his studio in 1905, photo by Albert Harlingue.
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Yakov Melkumov was an Armenian who fought for the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. In 1922, he would command the unit which killed Enver Pasha, who was one of the main architects of the Armenian genocide .
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1976: Chrysler Corporation offers $2,000 to anyone at the Chicago Auto Show who could break the composure of living mannequin Nancy del Corral.
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Four musicians standing on the corner of 23rd Street and 8th Avenue in New York City. 1975.
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A whale carcass explodes on a beach in Florence, Oregon, on Nov 12, 1970. It had been packed with dynamite in an effort to dispose of it. Chunks flew as far as 800 feet, and one piece crushed a car nearby.
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Roman Polanski kneeling at his door where 'Pig' is written in his wife's blood (Sharon Tate) after the Manson family murders, 1969.
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The futility of the Great War. A German soldier in a WW1 commonwealth cemetery on the Somme, June 1940
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Nazi soldiers paying tribute to France's unknown soldier. 28 june, 1940.
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One of the only photos ever taken of "the torturer in chief" Florentino Ventura, among the most powerful figures in Mexican police history, 1980s. Described as "the most brutal man I've ever met" by one DEA agent, he arrested & tortured several cartel drug lords & died by "suicide" in 1988 (167x233)
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British children taking shelter in a trench while watching an aerial battle overhead during the Battle of Britain on September 3, 1940. (Colorized, link to original black and white in comments)
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