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Hitler inspects the model of Linz, his hometown, at the studio architect Hermann Giesler in Munich (15 April 1943). Picture taken by Walter Frentz, Hitler's personal Photographer.
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US Marine Corps Generals Smedley D. Butler and John A. Lejeune enjoying a day at the park, Griffith Stadium, Washington, DC, 1923.
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Stunned Soviet officers examine a large pile of human ashes in front at Majdanek concentration camp, near Lublin, Poland. The camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1944
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Franciszek Jarecki (1931-2010) Polish pilot who escaped Soviet-controlled Poland to Danish island of Bornholm in his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 on 5 March 1953, coincidentally the day of Stalin's death. He was the first person to present a Mig-15 to the Americans. US, 1953.
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Soviet military personnel look at the remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov's body after a manned spaceship crash, 1967. .
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"Leo the Lion" being recorded for his roar to be heard at the beginning of MGM films. His name was Jackie. Circa 1928.
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A group of Havana schoolboys in 1937. The boy with the lollipop is Fidel Castro.
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Margaret Trudeau, estranged wife of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, dances at New York City's Studio 54, May 23, 1979. A few hours earlier her husband conceded defeat in the Canadian elections.
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Taken in 1945. The atomic bomb, "Little Boy," in a sunken loading pit just before being loaded into the B-29 that dropped it over Hiroshima. 140,000+ death toll.
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Jimmy Carter stands between Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin during the 1978 Camp David Conference, at which Egypt and Israel agreed to end thirty years of hot and cold war between the two nations.
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St Louisans Sledding down Art Hill in Forest Park - Saint Louis, Missouri - c.1930s
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