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A giant snowman measuring 17 feet made by two children in Aberdeen, Scotland 1963

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Soviet T-26 tank overtakes German motorcyclists during the Nazi-Soviet joint parade in Brest-Litowsk, 22 September 1939

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A Russian ship full of soldiers. The little boy in white is Tsarevich Alexei, the haemophiliac heir to the Russian throne who was killed at age 14.

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Portable changing booths for the beach, circa 1938

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Iraqi artillery shooting at Iranian targets near Khorramshahr during the offensive into Khūzestān, which marked the start of 8 years long, (inconclusive) war. October 1980

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An American soldier makes out an identity tag for a young German prisoner of war as another wounded Nazi supplies some necessary information. 9 June, 1944. (Colourized)

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A US flag flies at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a Japanese-American internment camp. The camp was a detention facility for some of the 120,000 Japanese-Americans excluded from the West Coast under wartime presidential Executive Order 9066 (Manzanar, California 1942)

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Vietnamese refugees land at Montreal's Dorval International Airport. Nov 26, 1978.

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Michelin Man stands next to an advertising vehicle used in Santa Clara in 1926.

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Protests against accepting Chilean refugees into Canada. Toronto, Ontario, 1974.

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South African and former Rhodesian pilots (mercenaries) at an airfield of the Somali Air Force, near Hargeisa, they flew Hawker Hawker fighter-bombers (paid $2,000 per sortie), Somali Civil War, c. 1988.

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First Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and his sculpture (other man unknown, date unknown, no given location). Yuri is seen interacting with said (clay) sculpture. Does anyone know anything about this photograph? (500 x 331)

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