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Czechoslovak railroad workers defrosting railroad tracks using a MiG-15 engine during a severe snow storm in 1970

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A British soldier wounded in the leg is given a blood transfusion in an operating theatre at an Advanced Dressing Station in Italy, 1944

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Photo taken shortly before the Omagh car bombing in 1998 by the 'Real IRA'. The bomb is in the red car and would kill 29 people including the photographer. The father and daughter however survived. The child's face appears to be censored.

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The crew of a Vietnamese Army M113 APC taking a rest near the Angkor Watt temple complex, The Cambodian-Vietnamese War 1989

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An US soldier wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire (or Reichskrone) circa 1945

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Edward Delafield Smith was an American lawyer, abolitionist, and federal prosecutor. While a prosecutor, he combatted the slave trade by prosecuting slave traders as pirates. In 1861, he gained international attention after one case resulted in a slave trader being sentenced to death .

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HM Queen Elizabeth inspects flight and ground crews in front of an Avro Lancaster at RAF Warboys, Cambridgeshire, February 1944

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A protest in the south, the 1950s.

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American supermodel Josephine Baker performing in Paris, 1920s

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Photo dating from 1977, where we can see the American boxer Mohamed Ali and the Brazilian footballer Pelé.

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Anita Bryant ("Save Our Children" leader) gets pied by a gay rights activist, Des Moines, Iowa, 14th October 1977

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Members of W Company Mortar Platoon, 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, prepare to engage enemy targets after an intense evening of incoming fire on the front line just south of Basra, Iraq. 26 March 2003. Photograph by Cpl Paul Jarvis/MOD

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