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The train carrying Zhang Zuolin after it exploded at the Huanggutun Railway Station. Zhang Zuolin was a Chinese warlord who ruled Manchuria from 1916 to 1928. The explotion had been plotted and committed by the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army (Shenyang, China 1928)
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A group of astronaut candidates take a break during their training. In the coming years, they will be the first five American women in space. circa August 1978. .
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Trịnh Tố Tâm being awarded the "Heroic American Killer" medal for the 53rd time, 1971
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78-year-old Robert T. Lincoln (son of Abraham Lincoln) is helped up the steps at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., 1922.
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American B-24 Liberator 'Sandman' during a bomb run over the Ploiești Astra Română refinery during Operation Tidal Wave, August 1, 1943
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Aerial photo of the battlefield of Verdun (Main heights on the right bank of the Meuse river) taken in 1916.
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Bombed out town of Shabats along Serbia's frontier with Austria-Hungary, October 1914
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Opening ceremony of the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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"The Old Defenders Of Baltimore", veterans of The War Of 1812 who had fought in the Battle of Baltimore, 1814. Photo taken 1880.
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The corpses of 3 high-ranking Iranian generals loyal to the Shah, Reza Naji, Manouchehr Khosrodad, & Mehdi Rahimi, after their execution by the islamist government of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979. (520x312)
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ATF agent John Osburg with a gun and a Nazi flag confiscated from Operation Red Dog conspirators. The conspirators were white supremacists trying to sail to Dominica and stage a paid coup there. April 1981
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