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A group of elderly men sitting on a mat, taken in Peshawar, now in Pakistan, circa 1865. Two of the men are looking at each other with contempt, suggesting that they may actually be enemies who have been persuaded to be photographed together as examples of native "thugs." (1200x900)
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Cuban soldiers during the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, 29 February 1988.
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Ozzy Osbourne showing off how much sugar he likes in his morning coffee - 1984
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Lizzie van Zyl was a 7-year-old Boer girl and an inmate at a British concentration camp. After her father refused to surrender, Lizzie was labeled an "undesirable" and deliberately starved. She died of typhoid fever shortly after this photo was taken, South Africa, 1901 .
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The commander of an M48 Patton tank looks through his lens during Vietnam War, 1967, Vietnam .
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Female Volunteers with M16-A1 rifles during an IRA training exercise in N.Ireland, 1977
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South Korean school girls lays dead after American armoured vehicle runs them over, 13/06/2002 (398x306)
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British Army recruiting sergeants outside a public house at Westminster. 1877, photographed by John Thomson. If you're interested, I've compiled 17 images taken of London by John Thomson between 1873 and 1877. I'll add the link in the comments. (1080x890)
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"Meeting with Cuban internationalists in Angola": Fidel Castro greets Cuban soldiers during Operation Carlota, 9 September 1986.
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Cuban Army Colonel Jesús Sosa Blanco is publicly tried for war crimes during the Revolution, in front of 17,000 people. He was implicated in dozens of murders. As the enraged crowd screamed for him to be killed, Sosa called the "scene was worthy of ancient Rome", Havana, 1959 .
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