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A Bomb containing around 1,000 pounds (450 kg) of dynamite at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, being examined by Nevada State Fire Marshal Thomas J. Huddleston. 26 August 1980

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Shoeshine boys gather around to listen to tales of the Civil War from a Union veteran, New York, 1910

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Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood on the set of the movie The Good Son. 1993

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With men on one side, and women and children on the other, the selection process of who will live and who will be sent to the gas chambers begins. In the background can be seen the main gate of the Auschwitz II–Birkenau camp. May 27, 1944.

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Sniper of the Bosnian army during the first days of the siege of Sarajevo (June 1992) (800x828)

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USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of her nine 16″/50 and six 5″/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, 1 July 1984

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A little German boy in his father's uniform, circa 1939.

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Resistance fighter Lauritz Sand, dubbed the "hardest tortured person in Norway", convalescing in hospital in May 1945 . Arrested in 1941, the 60+ year old Sand spent years as a Nazi prisoner. His execution was finally scheduled for May 17, 1945. The Nazis surrendered on the 8th.

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Cetshwayo, King of the Zulu who defeated the British at the Battle of Isandlwana, 1878

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On the 20th of August 1998, Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on Sudan's AI Shifa factory, which produced 90% of the country's pharmaceuticals. The loss of the factory resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands from treatable diseases

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Photos of Oliver Cromwell's head, from a 1911. The head was cut off after death, impaled on January 1661 and buried on March 25, 1960

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Old photo of a married child couple in their wedding outfits. Korea, 1910. Taken in Seoul by E.G. Stillman

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