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On this day, February 14th 1942, various Polish resistance movements merged in order to establish the “Home Army”.

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A cage in the buildings for your baby to get some air/sun in 1937 (640 x 826)

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Lipstick Tester in the 1960s (probably the best job ever)

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Portuguese Air Force paratrooper and nurse, Aura Teles (she was handling a MG3) at an airfield: in the Portuguese colonial territory of Guinea, during the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence, c. 1963 - 1974.

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Children in Newcastle upon Tyne’s West End gather and play on piled-up mattresses, England 1981

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Japan's infamous Unit 731, who murdered thousands in gruesome experiments, conduct a bacteriological trial upon a test subject in Nong’an County of northeast China’s Jilin Province. November 1940.

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Warsaw Uprising: insurgent from Mokotów district cames out of the sewers straight into German hands. Sewers were the only means of transportation between sorrounded districts. This man was probably one of 140 victims of nearby street execution. Warsaw, Poland, 27 September 1944.

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13-year-old Paul Martin Andrews was rescued after being found chained in a box, after being abducted and sexually abused for eight days, near Dismal Swamp, Virginia, 1973

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A man recording a concert in Poland 1980's.

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Two teen girls helping to assemble submachine guns during the siege of Leningrad, 1943

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U.S. President Bill Clinton and President Boris Yeltsin of Russia cracking jokes. Hyde Park, New York, October 23, 1995

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Nazi military hub of Dresden bombed on this day in 1945

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