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Late 1800's - early 1900's photo of Napoleon Bonaparte's death mask, modeled from his actual dead face. (964x700)
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A photo of the aftermath of the Sétif and Guelma massacre. Immediately after the end of the war in Europe, the French embarked on a mass killing of Algerian independence protesters. Ironically, the massacre started on V.E. Day. Overall, 6,000 to 30,000 people were killed, 1945 .
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1970's photo of sex trafficker, drug dealer & author Robert Beck, aka "Iceberg Slim." His 24 year experience in the US sex trade, which lasted from 1936 to 1960, formed the basis for his 1967 novel "Pimp," that shocked audiences for it's outrageously explicit violence and sexuality. (2000x1333)
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An American Marine, in foreground, still clutches the knife with which he killed an enemy soldier, in background, in a duel on Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll. A moment after finishing off his adversary, a sniper’s bullet killed the Marine, Feb 1944.
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One of the only known photos of Mexican general & president Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna, 1853. Known in the US for his role at "the Alamo" & notorious in Mexico for coming to power 11 times & losing over half of Mexico to the US in 1848, some regard him as the worst man in Mexican history (816x1154)
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Police arrest a Falun Gong demonstrator at Tiananmen Square, October 12, 2000. At least 300 people protesting the ban of Falun Gong were arrested on the square that day, making it the largest demonstration at Tiananmen Square after 1989.
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The expression on the exhausted face of Captain Francis Fenton of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines after he was told that his overwhelmed company was nearly out of supplies and ammunition but that they were ordered to keep fighting the North Koreans at No Name Ridge. September 1950.
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A wounded U.S. Marine raider with a piece of shrapnel in his brain awaits treatment on a litter outside a field hospital on Bougainville, 5 January 1944
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