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Tanks and mounted troops advance to break up a Bonus Marchers’ camp of veterans protesting lost wages in Washington D.C., July 28, 1932.
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1947: The fuselage of the ‘Spruce Goose’ (Hughes H-4 Hercules) making its way to final assembly in California.
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French President François Mitterrand and General Maurice Schmitt visit the battlefield of Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam, 1993.
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John H. Patterson poses with a lion he shot, one of a pair of Tsavo man-eaters. It was a pair of maneless males that attacked Indian railway builders in southern British Kenya. The exact number of people killed by the lions is unclear. Patterson claimed there were 135 victims. Dec 1898
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German troops involved in street fighting in the destroyed streets of Stalingrad in 1943. 80 years ago.
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Fidel Castro and Agostinho Neto, leader of MPLA, July 1976. Cuba became the most important ally of MPLA in the Angolan civil war, sending up to 350,000 soldiers to fight the UNITA, backed by US and South Africa
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88-year-old Otto Frank (1889-1980) inaugurating the Statue of Anne Frank, Amsterdam 1977
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Street in the mill district in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1941, Photo by Jack Delano.
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UNION CARBIDE'S FERRO ALLOY PLANT AT ALLOY, WV. (photo: Harry Schaefer) (1973)
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