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Serbian and British soldiers during the last day of the war in the province of Kosovo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1999.

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German SS guards exhausted from their forced labour clearing the bodies of the dead at Bergen-Belsen are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves 1945

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The Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, The Temptations, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, 1965.

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Wake of INLA member Patsy O'Hara, who died on hunger strike after 61 days. May, 1981

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Spanish Egyptologist Eduardo Toda y Güell, who discovered and opened the intact tomb of Sennedjem standing next to the ancient Egyptian mummies in the Bulak Museum. Filmed in 1885.

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A German and a Soviet officer shaking hands at the end of the Invasion of Poland, October 1939, 2000x1496

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Korean traditional shaman (or mudang) calling out spirits of the dead at a beach. Pohang, 1981.

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Members of the "Naftali Botwin" company raising their flag (between 1937-1939). This was a Jewish company of volunteers for the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. The flag is emblazoned with the words "For your freedom and ours" in Yiddish and Polish.

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Mongolian men selling hawks in Beijing. China, around 1900

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Enver Pasha tries the new Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol for the first time, 1912

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Family members arrive at the New York City morgue to identify the bodies of victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire that killed 146 factory workers, mainly young immigrant women. 1911

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