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1925 photo of Adolf Josef Langz, Austrian monk and occult white supremacist who was one of the earliest figures in the history of Aryan fascism. He founded the first white supremacist group to use the Swastika as a symbol and eventually described Hitler as being of "inferior racial stock." (620x620)

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The Statue of Liberty photographed in Paris just before it was disassembled and shipped to New York, 1884. (1080x1328)

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Fidel Castro and his men during the Cuban Revolution, 2nd of December 1956

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A New York iron worker walks along a girder high above the city streets 1950.

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Tricycle Gang in Brooklyn, New York City, 1930s. (1079×792)

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View of the opposing German and Soviet Pavilions at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris. In four years, the two powers would find themselves embroiled in the deadliest war in history.

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Russian woman, with the background of the burnt out Parliament building, and a BTR APC - Moscow, Russia – aftermath of the constitutional crisis, c. October 1993.

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A photograph of unidentified My Lai Massacre victims moments before being killed by American GIs. Taken by Ronald L. Haeberle on the 16th March 1968.

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German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendering at the Battle of Stalingrad, January 31, 1943

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Boris Yeltsin (the future first president of Russia) with the student women's volleyball team, which he coached. 1953 .

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The Crawling Order. Two days later, the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre would occur. Unknown photographer, 1919.

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Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972

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