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Dior model has her clothes ripped off by onlookers incensed at the show of opulence, 1947
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The makeshift grave of polar researcher Alfred Wegener, member of the German Greenland Expedition, upon its discovery, Greenland, May 12, 1931
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Benjamin Ferencz was the last surviving prosecutor from the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. In 1947, he became the chief prosecutor in what was called "the biggest murder trial in history". He spent his entire life fighting for justice for the victims of war crimes. He died this week .
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US Marines and Iraqis are seen on 9 April 2003 as the statue of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is toppled at al-Fardous square (Baghdad, Iraq 2003)
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c. 1890s: The Caucasian wisent, a now-extinct type of bison found in parts of Eurasia. This is the only photo of a wild individual in life. Only one bull lived in captivity, who was bred with other bison and now has hybrid descendants. The last three wild ones were killed in 1927.
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Japanese "hybrid" battleship Hyūga sunk in the shallow waters of Hiroshima Bay, 1945, Kure.
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Photo taken by United States Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968 in the aftermath of the My Lai massacre showing mostly women and children dead on a road. (714 × 486)
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The so-called "good Nazi" Albert Speer with Adolf Hitler, at Berghof. Successfully deceiving the court about his involvement and knowledge of atrocities committed by the Reich, he would only serve 20 years in prison. Author of best-seller "Inside the Third Reich", he died wealthy.
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A kurdish peshmerga during kurdish uprising against iranian government 1979-1980.
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In the 1940s, men dressed in shorts and cowboy boots served up to women at a drive through in Texas.
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