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Aloisia Wagner, better known by her stage name Violetta, was a German-American woman who was born without legs or arms with a condition known as tetra-amelia syndrome. She was born in Hemelingen, Germany, and had a lengthy career in sideshow performance, 1925.
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The Clinton family dog "Buddy" retrieving a tennis ball from the White House fountain pool. 12 July 1998
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German civilians being forced to witness the crimes of Nazi regime, 1945.
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An operations map at RAF Coastal Command Headquarters at Northwood in Hertfordshire, 9 July 1943
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Christine Collins was a California mother whose son went missing in 1928. Five months, police found a boy who claimed to be her son. After Christine said he wasn't, the police asked her to "try the boy out." After Christine insisted, she was committed to a mental hospital .
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The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior lying on its side after being blown-up by the French secret service, as the ship was preparing for a protest expedition to the nuclear test site of Mururoa. Fernando Pereira, a photographer, drowned on the sinking ship (Auckland, New Zealand 1985)
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The body of a fallen Soviet soldier on Jozsef Boulevard. Budapest, Hungary. 1956
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