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An Iraqi Kurdish woman visits the grave of her relative, Hafkar Omar Mustafa who was killed in a gas attack by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in 1988 during 24th anniversary of the attack at the memorial site of the victims in the Kurdish town of Halabja. 2012

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Prepared potential portraits of Adolf Hitler if he tried to hide after the fall of the Reich. One photo is real, the rest are photomontages. They were made already in 1944

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USS Arron Ward (DM-34) after being hit by six kamikazes and two bombs while patrolling Radar Picket Station Ten off Okinawa on May 3, 1945. Forty-two of the crew were lost and the ship was eventually not deemed worth repairing.

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Archery competition during annual Juwenalia student carnival. Kraków, Poland, 1935.

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Coal miner's wife and three of their children. Company house in Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938

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50 years ago, on September 11, 1973, the socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende was overthrown by a US-backed right-wing military coup, ushering in decades of sadistic repression. Below are Allende's final words to his people and the world, broadcast live on the radio.

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Nobel Prize Winning Agronomist Norman Borlaug, Father of the Green Revolution Credited with Saving Over a Billion People From Starvation, 1960s

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USAAF Boeing B-17 Crewmen pose with their high altitude gear at RAF Polebrook - September, 1942. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White for LIFE Magazine

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A Zulu tribesman pulls a tourist in a pedicab in Durban, Union of South Africa. Photo by Melville Chater, 1930's

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Yahoo! co-founder David Filo, Sunnyvale CA (1996)

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White women protest desegregation in front of a church in Fort Worth, Texas, on October 9, 1956.

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Jorge Rafael Videla takes office as president of Argentina, March 29 1976

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