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A very dapper secretary of the Embassy of Japan in the US. Taketomi Toshihiko, seated with his wife. Washington D.C. October 24, 1922

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In the city of Hamburg, the bodies of German civilians lay on the sidewalk following an Royal Air Force raid on the city. July 1943.

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East Germans surprise Hungarian border guards and rush through a gate into Austria. Austria and Hungary had agreed to open the border for 3 hours, to let a peace demonstration to happen, but more than 600 East Germans suddenly arrived and fled to the West (Sopron, Hungary 1989)

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Sculptor Frederick Hart completing the clay model of his Vietnam Veterans Memorial statue The Three Soldiers, 1983.

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Charles Aznavour protesting the Azerbaijani blockade against Nagorno Karabakh (Paris 1991)

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Group photo of Allied government and military leaders from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom during the First Quebec Conference, codenamed Quadrant. 18 August 1943

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Students cheering after school caught on fire. February 15th, 1939

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A five minute exposure of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department helicopter circling above Carson, California. 8 May 1986

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Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, photographed with pillow case over head in Ottawa, Ontario 1954 . Gouzenko was a clerk in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa and defected 3 days after the end of World War II. His defection is regarded as a catalyst for the start of the Cold War.

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Police raided the Scientology headquarters in Toronto and seized an estimated 250,000 documents in more than 900 boxes. 1983. .

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A group of youngsters tied a bicycle tubes around their body as a swimming aid. Germany, 1925.

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A Polish girl walks in front of a March for the Kurdish people in the Polish city of Kielce, 1974. (560x752)

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