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An American Marine, in foreground, still clutches the knife with which he killed an enemy soldier, in background, in a duel on Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll. A moment after finishing off his adversary, a sniper’s bullet killed the Marine, Feb 1944.
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One of the only known photos of Mexican general & president Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna, 1853. Known in the US for his role at "the Alamo" & notorious in Mexico for coming to power 11 times & losing over half of Mexico to the US in 1848, some regard him as the worst man in Mexican history (816x1154)
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Police arrest a Falun Gong demonstrator at Tiananmen Square, October 12, 2000. At least 300 people protesting the ban of Falun Gong were arrested on the square that day, making it the largest demonstration at Tiananmen Square after 1989.
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The expression on the exhausted face of Captain Francis Fenton of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines after he was told that his overwhelmed company was nearly out of supplies and ammunition but that they were ordered to keep fighting the North Koreans at No Name Ridge. September 1950.
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A wounded U.S. Marine raider with a piece of shrapnel in his brain awaits treatment on a litter outside a field hospital on Bougainville, 5 January 1944
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Soldiers from the Imperial Japanese 301st Independent Infantry Battalion, with their equipment - taking a rest, after an unopposed amphibious landing on Attu Island, Aleutians, Alaska Territory of the U.S., on June 7th, 1942.
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Voroshilov, Molotov, Stalin and no one else walking along the banks of the Moscow-Volga Canal, 1937
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Last photo ever taken of congressman Leo Ryan, resting briefly after investigating the situation at the "Jonestown" religious colony, 1978. The stain on his shirt is from being stabbed after members told Ryan of their desire to escape. Within hours Ryan & hundreds of others were murdered. (800x1127)
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