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An employee of Netherland Indies Gas Company welcoming a customer. 1932. (1080 x 1350).
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'After party, soiree aux salon de Paris.' Photographed in 1860. (500×514)
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Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell—on North Carolina Jan. 24 1961 144x144
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Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl and his raft 'Kon-Tiki' crossing the Pacific Ocean. Heyerdahl built the boat and sailed it from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days, thus demonstrating that trips of that magnitude were within the realm of possibility for prehistoric peoples (1947)
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Members of the Ukrainian Army’s 19th NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) Battalion practice decontamination skills at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. 3 August 2003
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A survivor from the Batak massacre sits beside the remains of the village, Bulgaria, 1927.
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Hiroshima residents pray toward the epicenter on the first anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. The world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 by US at the end of WWII, killing 70-80k people instantly, around 30% of the population (Hiroshima, Japan 1946)
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US Marine in Vietnam making a statement about his Commander In Chief (Lyndon Baines Johnson), 1967
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