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The bodies of 9 members of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard are openly displayed after their summary executions. The men were responsible for killing Prime Minister Armand Călinescu. The poster in the back reads "From now on, this shall be the fate of those who betray the country", Romania, 1939 .
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Henry Kissinger (L) receiving his Nobel Peace Prize from Thomas Byrne, US Ambassador to Norway. Kissinger shared the 1973 Noble Peace Prize with Lê Đức Thọ, North Vietnam's negotiator, 'for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973'. Thọ refused the award (London, UK)
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Dead bodies piled up in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after the British troops liberated the camp on April 15, 1945. The British found 60,000 men, women and children dying of starvation and disease.
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Last moments as a kamikaze dives on the USS Lexington (CV-16)... November 5, 1944.
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Franklin Roosevelt with his 1940 running mate, Henry Wallace. In one of American history's big hinge moments, in 1944, party centrists convinced FDR to replace the progressive Wallace with Harry Truman.
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A young Republican walks in a street of Barcelona with a gun, July 1936.
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Five kidnapped western tourists held in captivity by an Islamist militant group in the Kashmir valley in 1995. The tourist on the right would escape, the one in the center was beheaded, and the others were never found
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Actor James Gandolfini poses with a bust of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein following the US-led invasion of the country, late 2003. Saddam would be executed 3 years later in December 2006. (1240 X 932)
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National Socialist Movement of Denmark members at a demonstration in the late 1990s.
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Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary Following Their Successful Summit of Mount Everest, 1953
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Len Dawson enjoying a cigarette and Fresca on the sideline of Superbowl I January 15th, 1967
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