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Policemen arresting a demonstrator when local people blocked the march of the British Union of Fascists in Cable Street in London’s East End. 4 October 1936. .
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The priest fires a machine gun. South Lebanon (Lebanese Civil War), May 1985 .
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Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth serving soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen, November 17th, 1942
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Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, the first woman to earn a doctorate in computer science in the United States, 1965.
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Costas Georgiou, a cypriot serving as british soldier and later as mercenary in Angolan Civil War. He is assumed to be one of the shooters responsible for Bloody Sunday in N. Ireland. He was executed by MPLA in 1976 at the age of 24
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Flemish students protesting French speakers be expelled from the University of Leuven in 1968. (1190 × 669)
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A Soviet bomber crewman takes a photo of an F-4 Phantom with its RIO taking a picture of the Tu-142 Bear F over the Atlantic, c. 1970s
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An ordinary soldier, named James Hendrix, of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States plays the guitar with a fellow soldier in 1962.
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Inhabitants of St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 1926. The islands had been inhabited since antiquity, but would be evacuated in 1930. Big image, zoom in for detail.
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Picture of Brünnhilde the cat taken in 1936 by Adolph E. Weidhaas. Credit & Collection: Library of Congress.
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