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A female Afghan communist revolutionary during the Saur Revolution, 1978
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Women outside the prime minister's office during the protests against the hijab law - iran, 1980 (680×1024)
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In 1929, Arthur Upfield suggested a method of body disposal for his detective novel. However, the method was too clean for the plot to work. One man, John Rowles, decided to try it himself. He killed three people, and was only caught after forgetting to do one of the steps, Australia .
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A close-up of the injury to the right ear of Evander Holyfield after Mike Tyson bit off a piece of it in the third round of their World Boxing Association Heavyweight title fight on 28 June 1997 (Las Vegas, Nevada 1997)
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Members of the Hitler Youth stand guard over the coffins of five English schoolboys, who died on a hike in the Black Forest in 1936.
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Armed mujahideen carry animal skins to use as inflatable buoys to cross rapids. Kunar province, 1980. Photograph: Steve McCurry (960x626)
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The fate of RMS Carpathia, the steamship which rescued Titanic survivors. She would be sunk by three torpedos fired from German sub U-55 while en route to Boston, 17 July 1918.
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Saddam Hussein appears at a birthday party for one of the British hostages he held in Kuwait shortly after his invasion, August 1990.
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Major General Maurice Rose, commander of the 3rd Armored Division, receives the Croix de Guerre and an embrace from a French general in mid-March 1945. Less than three weeks later, Rose, considered among the U.S. Army’s finest armored commanders, would be shot dead. (1024x798)
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A Christian wedding during the Lebanese Civil War, Beirut, Lebanon, 1986.
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