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My grandma Muriel circa 1948
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On 27 October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet Navy Vice-Admiral Vasily Arkhipov, refused to agree to fire a nuclear torpedo at a U.S. Navy warship, avoiding certain nuclear warfare between the two superpowers.
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Kodachrome shot of a group of children navigating in a river with their raff, circa 1950s
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Native American looking at the newly built transcontinental railroad. 1868.
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In 1939, during the Winter War, Finnish soldiers positioned the frozen body of a Soviet soldier as part of psychological warfare.
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The Saigon Execution(February 2nd, 1968. Brigadier General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan at the exact moment he shoots Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém in the head amidst fighting in the capital during the Tet Offensive.
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''WHY MUST WE FREE THE FALKLANDS?'' - anti-British cartoon (''The Ohio State Lantern'') made by American cartoonist John Backderf during the Falklands War, April 14, 1982
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Japanese soldiers waiting in line outside a "comfort station". Occupied China, late 1930s-early 1940s.
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