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British Veteran of the Battle of Waterloo wearing his Campaign Medal with his Wife - c.1850
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The librarian at Lorain Ohio, Public Library is looking at the 50,000 book chaos after one shelf fell over, the rest fell like dominoes! 1971.
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People walk past ruins in the Culmer section of Miami after rioting over the acquittal of four police officers charged with the 1979 beating death of Arthur McDuffie, a black motorcyclist, May 19, 1980.
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President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson during a tour of Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, 11 September 1962
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Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov and Mikhail Gorbachev on Victory Day, 1990
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Site of sarin gas experiments on sheep by Japanese death cult Aum Shinrikyo in Banjawarn, Australia. (1990s)
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Tiananmen Square, Beijing. May 1989. A portrait of Sun Yat-sen in the background
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Presidents of Ukraine, the US, and Russia signing an agreement for Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. Budapest Memorandum, 1994.
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Four astronauts pose for an official photo with some special headwear. All four of these men would later go to the Moon. Early 1966.
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