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An undercover police officer on duty. New York, Brooklyn, July 1969.
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A Vietnamese female fighter captured an American pilot , Dewey Wayne Waddell in 1967.
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King Neptune oversees a “Line crossing ceremony” for crossing the Equator on USS Lexington CV-16 in Early 1944. Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are called Shellbacks or Sons of Neptune. Those who have not yet crossed the Equator are nicknamed Pollywogs.
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, some sailors were trapped on the USS West Virginia and the USS Oklahoma. One group survived 16 days, which they tallied on the wall of the storeroom where they were trapped. No one wanted guard duty because of the incessant banging and screaming.
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The 15,000th Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter built, November 1944. The aircraft was given a special paint scheme with the national insignia of all the countries which used Curtiss aircraft
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Enron employees outside the company’s Houston HQ on Dec 3, 2001, the day after the company went bankrupt. (Photo: David J. Philip, Colorized)
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(From L-R) John Salter, a sociology teacher and students Joan Trumpauer and Anne Moody stage a sit-in demonstration challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi on May 28,1963
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Auschwitz Camp Commandant, Rudolf Hoess walking to his gallows next to the crematorium in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz Stammlager, Poland, 1947
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One of the only known photos of Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt together in person, 1915. (2208x2723)
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German war criminals laugh at a translation mistake during the Nuremberg Trials, 1945. (962 x 709)
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JonBenét Ramsey seen here with her mother Patsy Ramsey in one of her last photos. Dec 25,1996. She would be found dead the following day on Dec 26,1996 in a case that remains unsolved to this day.
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