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Horace Watson recording the songs of Fanny Cochrane Smith, considered to be the last fluent speaker of any Tasmanian language, using an Edison phonograph. 1903

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(Holocaust) Moments before a young child is executed into a mass grave. Massacre carried out by Germans and Ukrainians in Miropol, Ukraine, on October 13, 1941.

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Chechen children after their shelter exploded under Russian rocket fire. Grozny, Chechnya, January 10, 1995.

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The creation of 14th Waffen-SS division "Galician". Nazi officials and first batch of Ukrainian volunteers. Sanok, Galicia(Poland), May 1943

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A sled dog listens to a gramophone. circa 1911.

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Soviet tankers giving some canned milk to local polar bears. circa 1950.

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Only one of two photographs in existence of the US Supreme Court in session. Cameras are forbidden in the Supreme Court, but this photograph was taken by a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, 1937.

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Chairman Mao Zedong signs U.S. civil rights leader Robert F. Williams’ copy of the ‘Little Red Book’ at the National Day celebrations, October 1, 1966.

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Young girl murdered in Miropol, Ukraine. October 13th 1941. 250 Jews were killed in the municipal park by Nazis and Ukrainian collaborators.

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Queen Elena of Italy with her children, 1918

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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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Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC founder Colonel Sanders lays in state at Southern Seminary's Alumni Memorial Chapel in Louisville, Kentucky. Sanders was buried in his signature white suit and black western string tie. An estimated 1,000 mourners attended his funeral. December 20, 1980.

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