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Young mother smiles as she helps her little boy give his first steps, February of 1952
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First supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini while in exile in France in 1978
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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds an Iraqi child in central Iraq in this March 29, 2003, photo. Confused front-line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family after local soldiers appeared to force civilians towards US positions
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Political cartoon from 1969 about Golda Meir's visit to the United States
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On March 5, 1906, US forces began the assault on Bud Dajo in the Philippines. For 4 days, troops fired into a volcanic crater, killing nearly 1,000 Moro people—including many women & children.
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Chicago elementary school teacher Kathy Ainsworth enters her classroom. She was part of one of the most militant white supremacist groups of the 1960s. She was killed in a shootout with police in Mississippi after she and a Klansman tried to assassinate a prominent Jewish figure there .
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Iraqi workers clean debris near a large pool of blood at the scene of a suicide attack in the city of Hilla, February 28, 2005. A suicide bomber detonated a car near police recruits and a crowded market, killing 115 people and wounding 148 in bloodiest attack in Iraq since the fall Hussein
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Guarded by 400 troops of the Missouri National Guard, John Henry Riney, a young black man charged with raping a white woman, is escorted to his trial (Arkansas, 1941) .
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