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British Hurdler, May 1923
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Edgar Sengier listening to General Leslie Groves read the Medal of Merit citation for his contribution to the allied war effort. Sengier was the director of a mining company in Katanga in the Belgian Congo that supplied the ore used in the Manhattan Project. 1946
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Nuclear explosion with a force equivalent to 600 kilotons of TNT, photographed through the periscope of the submarine USS Carbonero, launched. Test codenamed “Frigate Bird” during Operation Dominic, 6 May 1962. The only full-scale test of a strategic missile system conducted by the USA.
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Sean Michael Coulthard (Michael Cole) as a journalist and News correspondent - stands next to a ruined building - when he spent 9 months covering the Bosnian Civil War - amidst the Breakup of Yugoslavia, c. 1994.
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Injured Auxiliary Fire Service firefighters at a casualty clearing station in Westminster Hospital, c. 1940.
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Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse ‘The Doc’ with his stretcher-bearers in rest billets in Flanders 1917
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OGPU task force that carries out a punitive operation against the Khanty from western Siberia who rebelled against the changes in their lifestyle that were forced upon them. March 1934
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Bernhard Sindberg posing with Chinese soldiers during the Battle of Shanghai, 1937
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