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U.S. Navy launched a developmental flight test model of the new Trident II (D-5) missile at 1:45 pm on Sept. 19, 1988, from Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

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Yoruba Slave, Brazil, 1864, 383β€ŠΓ—β€Š515

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Japanese troops forcing their way into a house in Shanghai, 1937

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A US Marine hurls a hand grenade towards a Japanese position on Saipan as a buddy prepares to do the same - June 1944. (LIFE Magazine photo)

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Typist training exam 1960s.

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Children smile out a window as donated Christmas presents are delivered to their home. Detroit, Michigan, 1932.

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The "Highway Of Death" located between Kuwait and Iraq. The remains of up to 2000 Iraqi vehicles were left here after American, Canadian, British and French aircraft and ground forces attacked retreating Iraqi military personnel attempting to leave Kuwait on February 26–27, 1991.

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Withdrawal of the Soviet Navy from the important Pasha Liman base in Vlora. In March 1961, the Albanians tried to seize Soviet Navy ships stationed in their country, but the sailors resisted and escaped with significant losses.

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A daguerreotype of John Brown taken by African-American photographer Augustus Washington in Springfield, Massachusetts, c. 1846–1847. Brown is holding the hand-colored flag of Subterranean Pass Way, his militant counterpart to the Underground Railroad.

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Grave of a US Airborne Soldier somewhere in Normandy, June, 1944. The name on the grave marker was censored. LIFE Magazine Archives, Bob Landry Photographer.

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Delta Air Line Cabin Service 1969.

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U.S warships during the D-day landings on June 6,1944

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