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Two Baylor University students study in their dorm room, 1890s.

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Photo of U.S. Army men having breakfast, with one on horseback jumping over table, 1909

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Last known photo of Giacomo Matteotti (C). He was an Italian politician. On 30 May 1924, he spoke in the Italian Parliament alleging the Fascists committed fraud in the general election, and denounced their violence. 11 days later, he was kidnapped and killed by Fascists (Italy 1924)

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Pro-Yeltsin forces take aim the Supreme Soviet building in Moscow during the October Coup, 1993

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Pilot from the 332nd Guards Transport-Combat Helicopter Regiment, of the Soviet Armed Forces, with a wreck of a former Luftwaffe Ju 87 Stuka - Murmansk Oblast, Soviet Union, c. 1970s.

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Vietnamese troops on a captured M113 near Angkor Wat, Cambodia , 1989 near the end of the Cambodian - Vietnamese war

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Fg Off Eugene Tobin (CA), Plt Off Vernon Keough (NJ) and Flt Lt Andrew Mamedoff (CT) at Church Fenton, Yorkshire, October 1940. These 3 men would travel to England to serve in the RAF in the Battle of Britain

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Pavilion of Israel and Palestine at the International Exhibition in Paris, 1937 (2018х2410)

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Cleaning Women Washing A Crucifix, 1938

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Soviet soldiers and tanks of the Urals Volunteer Tank Corps en route to the front during World War 2, circa 1943.

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Facing the camera from left to right, Robert Trout, Ned Calmer, Major George Fielding Eliot, and William L. Shirer at the New York CBS news headquarters at 485 Madison Avenue on D-Day, June 6th, 1944. The men were exhausted, having been broadcasting all night.

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Photograph of an outsized carving knife and fork made by Beaver Falls Cutlery Works. The knife measured 9 feet 7 inches long. The handles were each made from a whole elephant's tusk, and were carved. Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, Philadelphia.

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