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Members of the Ukrainian Army’s 19th NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) Battalion practice decontamination skills at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. 3 August 2003
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A survivor from the Batak massacre sits beside the remains of the village, Bulgaria, 1927.
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Hiroshima residents pray toward the epicenter on the first anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. The world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 by US at the end of WWII, killing 70-80k people instantly, around 30% of the population (Hiroshima, Japan 1946)
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US Marine in Vietnam making a statement about his Commander In Chief (Lyndon Baines Johnson), 1967
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Saddam Hussein speaks at an "emergency session" of Ba'ath Party leaders, which he convened. He claimed to have discovered a planned coup. Saddam then read out the names of the 68 alleged conspirators, who were taken out of the room. Twenty-one of them were later shot, Iraq, 1979 .
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Bian Zhongyun's children mourn the death of their mother. On 5 August 1966 Bian was beaten to death with sticks by her students and red guards, after accusing her of counter-revolutionary revisionism. She was one of the first fatalities of the Cultural Revolution (Beijing, China 1966)
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Kiribati warrior in armor and with a weapon made of shark’s teeth, circa 1890
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Kaw-U-Tz, a young Caddo Indian woman, photo by George B. Cornish, 1906.
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