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Jewish woman chased by men and youth armed with clubs during the Lviv pogroms, 1941, Ukraine
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Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, former Prime Minister of South Vietnam, working at a liquor store in Los Angeles, after settling in the United States following the fall of South Vietnam - 1977
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A muddied Combat Engineer of the United States Fifth Army enjoys a cup of coffee and a doughnut supplied by the Red Cross in Italy, 1944.
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DJS-11, also known as Device 150, China's first supercomputer (for the time) capable of exceeding 1 megaFLOP, completed 1972 by Peking University.
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Wenceslao "El Fusilado" Moguel, left disfigured after surviving a firing squad execution, sharing a moment with Robert L. Ripley on the set of Ripley's Believe It or Not! radio show, 1937
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Ethiopian troops arrived in Korea. The vast majority of UN troops were American, but the troops also included representatives from more than a dozen different national contingents. (1951)
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New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle after being slammed to the ground by a Pittsburgh Steelers lineman in Pittsburgh on Sept. 20, 1964. The photograph immortalized Tittle in football lore as the epitome of the aging warrior who had finally fallen.
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Flettner F1 282 Hummingbird produced in the Third Reich. It was the first helicopter in the world produced in series and the first helicopter used in combat operations. The man in the back is designer Anton Flettner. probably 1944
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