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Greyhound bus terminal at Los Angeles with ‘Tel-a-Chairs’. A half-hour of TV time cost 25 cents. Circa 1969

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Human skeletons in Havana Harbor, Cuba, killed by Spain's concentration camp policy which killed over 400,000 Cubans. 1898.

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The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Independence underway with the Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci. The Amerigo Vespucci has been built in 1930 at the (formerly Royal) Naval Shipyard of Castellammare di Stabia (Naples). She was launched on 22 February 1931 (Mediterranean Sea 1942)

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British troops coming through a wood on the Western Front, 1916-18 (Colourized)

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Anne Frank in front of Opekta, her father's company in Singel, Amsterdam in 1935. .

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Crowd awaits news from the Titanic's survivors in New York City. April 1912 (480 X 336)

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A young Welles Crowther - later nicknamed "The Man in the Red Bandana" after sacrificing his life to save at least 18 people before the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11th, 2001.

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Spanish Flu epidemic, a policeman berates a man for not wearing his mask, circa 1918

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Mill Creek, Knott County, Kentucky. Completing her mission at a lonely mountain cabin, the Pack Horse Librarian turns up the trail toward similar cabines where she is anxiously awaited. January 11, 1938

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MCpl Clayton Matchee of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, with a beaten and bruised Shidane Abukar Arone, a Somali teenager. Arone would be tortured to death by the paratroopers, sparking a national inquiry. Belet Huen, Somalia, Mar 16 1993.

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Luftwaffe airmen crew a heavily armed "Siebel" ferry during a review, Lahdenpohja, Lake Ladoga, 13 August 1942.

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18 year old Mike Tyson with his trainer Cus D'Amato before his first professional fight in 1985

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