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Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.

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Illinois State Senator Barack Obama giving his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, 2004.

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Famous friends, Henry Ford and George Washington Carver. Circa 1940

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Former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Tokyo, 15 April 1948

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Two members of the visiting Chinese PLA delegation are hugged by a person dressed in a koala bear suit at the San Diego Zoo, USA, 1980.

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Little Boy's mushroom cloud looming over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, August 6th, 1945

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A young Mao Zedong leading the socialist revolution. Doing a speech in Yenan - north China - to the local farmer population, 1944.

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Edgar Schmued, the German-born designer of the famous P-51 Mustang, 1941.

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German prisoners captured by the French 14e Division at Rethel are handed over to the Gardes Mobiles, May 1940

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French soldiers in winter, Alsacian campaign, France, 1944

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MLk removing a burned cross from his lawn. The boy beside him is his son.(1960)

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A squad of Vietnamese soldiers patrolling the border between Vietnam and China, The Sino-Vietnamese war 1979

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Charles Rigulout was a French weightlifter, wrestler, racing driver, actor, and resistance member who punched out a Nazi, went to jail for it, bent the cell bars, escaped, then set the others free after promptly beating the hell out of another Nazi

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