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Skull of an presumed Soviet soldier used as an decoration. Taken in Imatra Finland 1941. Photo from SA-kuvat {564x705}
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View from above on the Crown of Saint Stephen. After WWII, the crown was given to the U.S. Army for safekeeping from the Soviet Army. It was held at Fort Knox until it was returned to the Hungarian people in 1978. Photo 8/3/1945.
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Marilyn Monroe visiting injured troops in Japan. This soldier had a broken back but it didn't stop Marilyn. (1954)
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Vincenzo Peruggia in the courtroom. On 21 August 1911, Peruggia stolen the Mona Lisa. He walked into the Louvre and, noticing it had no guards or visitors, took the painting off its pegs, removed it from the frame, and walked out of the museum with it under his arm (Florence, Italy 1914)
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Necmettin Erbakan, then Sharia Prime Minister of Turkiye, signs the decisions taken after negotiations with the secularist and Ataturkist army. February 28, 1997
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Unarmed citizens jeer invading Soviet military forces, shouting, 'Fascists!' and 'Russians go home!'. On 20-21 August 1968, Czechoslovakia was invaded by 250,000 Warsaw Pact troops. The invasion stopped Alexander Dubček's Prague Spring liberalization reforms (Prague, Czechoslovakia 1968)
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Sgt. Olin Dows, a fluent German speaker, faces a group of German soldiers after convincing them to surrender to U.S. forces. He initially believed there were 6 or 7 men in the group. To his surprise, 56 Germans got up & began walking towards him with their hands up, 1944 (1142x855)
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George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party lay dead after being assassinated by former member, John Patler in 1967.
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The German electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz said on August 19, 1923 that by 2023 electricity will do all the hard work and people won't have to toil for more than four hours a day. He also mentioned that humanity will deal with the problem of waste. 1922 newspaper photo.
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A very dapper secretary of the Embassy of Japan in the US. Taketomi Toshihiko, seated with his wife. Washington D.C. October 24, 1922
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In the city of Hamburg, the bodies of German civilians lay on the sidewalk following an Royal Air Force raid on the city. July 1943.
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