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French soldier whose face was mutilated in World War I, being fitted with a mask made at the American Red Cross studio of Anna Coleman Ladd, 1918.
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Guy de Rothschild and Marie-Hélène de Rothschild. The Rothschild's Surrealist Ball, 1972 (705x960)
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Arnold Schwarzenegger having a cigar and a beer during the filming of Red Heat, 1988.
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Robert Capa - Children in Barcelona pretending to be a firing squad at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War, circa 1936 (1280x847)
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Sergeant Thomas Dawson with his Daughter, 1855. Dawson lost his left arm at the Battle of Inkerman. Photographs such as this were influential in focusing public attention onto the impact of war on the individual and the family unit. (1555x2000)
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King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (right) shooting with a rifle at an Austrian plane during WW1, sometime between 1915 and 1918
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U.S. Marines pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad. 9 April 2003.
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This photo was taken at an air show in 2002 at the airfield in Sknyliv .This disaster broke records for the number of victims in the air show: 77 people died (including 28 children), 543 people were recognized as victims.
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British Major General Horatio Gordon Robley (28 June 1840 – 29 October 1930) with his mokomokai (or Toi moko, are the preserved heads of Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, where the faces have been decorated by tā moko tattooing) collection, 1895 (641x550)
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First day in school for Mila Kunis, 1980's. She grew up in Chernyvtsy, Western Ukraine; then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Photo by Ushanka show.
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