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Sinéad O’Connor (RIP), performing on Saturday Night Live on Oct. 3, 1992, rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II in protest of the catholic church's history of child abuse
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A group of Japanese prisoners of war read a newspaper announcing the impending surrender of Japan, Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, September of 1945 (1140x1105)
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French civilians and American troops converse over the body of a dead German soldier killed behind the church in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy during the Invasion of France by Allied forces. 6 June 1944.
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Joseph Stalin layed down, reading, with an unbuttoned coat, 03/07/1920.
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Ah-del-stohne (Straight Shooter), Navajo, 1903. Photo by Adam Clark Vroman.
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Fritz Loew, a 41-year-old German prisoner of war who was captured at Metz. Date unknown. Likely January, 1945.
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Pfc. Frank Vukasin, Great Falls, Mont., stops to load clip in his rifle while advancing through the snow-covered front-line sector at Houffalize, Belgium. Two dead Germans lay in the background. January 1945.
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A Bengali guerilla fighter bayonets two Pakistani collaborators to death following the end of the 1971 India Pakistan War, the fall of Dhaka and the surrender of Pakistan
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Bran Castle (Castelul) in the commune of (present-day) Brasov County, Transylvania: border with Wallachia — in the Kingdom of Romania, c. 1920s.
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Hungarian Jewish women and children, deemed unfit for labor. Although they don't know it yet, the people in this photo are on their way to the gas chambers. Auschwitz, May 27, 1944.
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