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May 19, 1944: Heavy accident by bomb run over Berlin by American bombers (1,000 Ib bomb clashed other bomber, 11/11 crew mates died) (3000×2432)
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October 26th 1951: Chinese Troops March Through The Tibetan Capital Of Lhasa During The Chinese Invasion Of Tibet. {450x302}
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Portrait of Canadian classical pianist Glenn Gould, taken by photographer Yousuf Karsh, 1957.
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A German child meets his father, a World War II soldier, for the first time 1956 .
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The US Navy's "Squadron of Evolution 1889 at anchor. Ships include the protected cruiser USS Chicago (flagship) in left foreground. Astern of her (from left to right) is the gunboat USS Yorktown (Gunboat No. 1), the protected cruiser USS Boston, and the protected cruiser USS Atlanta.
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The Sword of Stalingrad at the Tsaritsyn-Stalingrad Defense Museum. 1951. (2,170 × 3,024)
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Shiro Ishii was a Surgeon General in the Imperial Japanese Army. He headed the biological warfare department and commanded the infamous Unit 731 which was responsible for numerous gruesome war crimes during 1936-45. He received immunity from the USA in exchange for his research. 1940
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Russian writer Alexander Pushkin and French writer Alexandre Dumas. Each had a Black ancester who was a general in a European army. An old rumor claimed that Pushkin faked his 1837 death in a duel, moved to France, and became Dumas.
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Aerial POV of Bombs being dropped on Kobe, Japan in 1945 during World War 2
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A frame from the film 'Alam Ara', India's first talking film. It was released on 14 March 1931. No print or gramophone record of the film is known to survive, thereby making it a lost film (India)
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The Making of Mount Rushmore, 1939. The faces of the four presidents (Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln) were carved out of solid granite in a massive project that began in 1927 and ended in 1941
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