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A delegation of military attaches from Finland, Romania, Italy and Germany during a visit to Japanese occupied Dutch East Indies - March 25, 1942
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The last Mughal emperor – King of Delhi Bahadur Shah Zafar. Only two photographs of him are known, this one was taken around 1860, shortly before his death in 1862, when he was in exile in Rangoon after the Indian Uprising (1857-1859). Most of his sons were executed by the British.
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Women (two wearing high heeled leather boots), sitting on a stone wall at the University of Sulaymaniyah – Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, Ba'athist era, c. 1979.
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Hirohito, 124th emperor of Japan, signing the guestbook of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva in 1971. In the back, ICRC President Marcel Naville, his wife, and Empress of Japan Kôjun. Photo: ASL Actualités Suisses Lausanne (1954-1999)/Swiss National Museum
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Imperial Japanese ships, burning after hit by bombs dropped from U.S. Navy carrier-borne aircraft - off Dublon Island in Truk Lagoon, Caroline Islands - north of New Guinea, Operation Hailstone on February 17th - 18th, 1944.
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