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Justin Trudeau, son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, receives Cuban President Fidel Castro during the state funeral of the former Prime Minister. Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 3, 2000.

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Four U.S. Army infantrymen clean their rifles while awaiting orders for the Normandy invasion. 1 June 1944.

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American medics giving aid to a group of French soldiers hit by artillery shells. Colleferro, Italy 2 June, 1944

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, with scouts, prepares to shoot an arrow, 1930s. Note his leg braces, which appeared in few press photographs.

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A Japanese woman carrying her children in a bucket on her head, Japan 1900s

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Italian soldiers playing "guitars" in North Africa (1940/1942). The photo was censored and the comment written by the censorship officer on the side of the photo read: "Are they soldiers or beggars?"

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1970- U.S soldiers smoking weed out of a shotgun in Saigon, Vietnam

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Mother Charlotte and and her daughter, Marjorie Collyer, Titanic Survivors, June 1912. Colorized. original in the comments. (640 x 800)

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Young Elizabeth II and her father George VI at 1929(1000X1207)

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Lepa Radić, a 17 year old Serbian girl was executed by Nazi officers. The Nazi executing her offered her a deal. If she revealed where her comrades were hiding, he would spare her life. She replied "My comrades will reveal themselves when they avenge me." February 11, 1943.

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Funeral after the fire at the Maria Mine, which killed 319 men on 31. May 1898. Despite one man being sentenced to 3 years in jail, the cause of fire remains unknown. Příbram, Bohemia, Austria Hungary

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Warsaw Uprising: Sappers disarming a dud 600 mm mortar shell, which crashed through several stories and stopped in the basement of “Adria” townhouse at Moniuszki 10 street, 18 August 1944. Photo taken by Eugeniusz "Brok" Lokajski.

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