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Three days from his promotion to Generalfeldmarschall, Hermann Göring and Polish president Ignacy Mościcki on a hunting trip, 26 February 1938. In a year and a half, Germany would invade Poland and ignite the fuse of WWII.

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A Llama Sightseeing In Times Square, 1957, New York,

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Yugoslavian war. Words behind soldier: "God, if I die young, send me to heaven because I was already in hell." (around 1993)

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Departure of a Red Cross train going to Switzerland, Budapest, Hungary, 1947

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Adolf Hitler inspecting a Mercedes-Benz W154 Grand Prix model racing car, 1938.

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Acrobats in Japan. ca. 1900.

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The Louvre Pyramid under construction 1988. Workers built the pyramid before the supporting underground structure because they feared that if the Socialists lost their election in 1986 (they did) that conservatives would upend the entire project & wanted the designs to be irreversible.

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Aerial Photo of the Enormous Hughes H-4 Hercules Wooden Aircraft being Built - Playa Vista, California - February 1947

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Kearsarge-class pre-dreadnought battleship USS Kentucky (BB-6) shows off her unusual stacked turrets layout, 1900.

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Fighters in the Lebanese civil war - 1980s (720x1280)

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A U.S. Air Force F-117 Nighthawk flies over the Persian Gulf. 14 April 2003

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Staff Sgt. Russell Brion, U.S. Army (left), helps Russian Sgt. Helen Viliulina with her parachute gear at Eagle Base, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Sept. 28, 1998.

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