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SAC’s underground command post display and closed circuit television relay, 1961. .
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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein feigns tears during his infamous 1979 purge of the Ba'ath party, in which 68 high-ranking members were publicly accused of treason & arrested on the spot. Saddam, who'd been de facto ruler of Iraq for years, replaced President Al-Bakr in a coup 6 days earlier (850x753)
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A young Osama Bin Laden (center) at a judo class in the early 1980's. Despite later becoming an islamist guerilla terrorist, Osama was born into one of the wealthiest & most powerful families in Saudi Arabia, & experienced a very happy, privileged childhood, even inheriting $25-30 million (1200x800)
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Vietnam war pilot leaves cockpit to photograph helicopter in the middle of the jungle during unauthorised hunt mission" 1970s
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Warlord Joshua Milton Blahyi, more commonly known by his nom de guerre "General Butt Naked," during a battle of the first Liberian civil war, 1992. Blahyi, who fought against rebel forces in the war, believed he was impervious to bullets & claims to have killed over 20,000 people (1920x1080)
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General Augusto Pinochet during the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état that deposed a democratically elected leftist government in Chile. 1983.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter observed the Indonesia 1999 elections as the head of the Carter Center. The Indonesia 1999 election was the country's second democratic election since 1955. June 7, 1999.
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Women being arrested in 1922 for wearing indecent bathing suits at Oak Street Beach in Chicago
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School photo of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin as a young boy in Georgia, late 1880's. Born Ioseb Jughashvili, Stalin autocratically ruled the Soviet state from 1922-1953, killing millions of people in the process. (1080x632)
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