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1916. Two Women at the Convention of Former Slaves in Washington, DC.
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Sgt. Mike Chalooga of Honolulu, attached to the 5th RCT, examines a dead Chinese Communist killed during the offensive drive of the 5th RCT near the Han River area, Korea. 7 February 1951.
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Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials, 30 July 1938, on his 75th birthday, (1200x800)
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The body of English mountaineer George Herbert Leigh Mallory, he had died on June 9th, 1924 - found by the Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition - at 26,760 ft (8,157 m) on the north face of Mount Everest, Nepal, on May 1st, 1999.
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A homeless Russian man attempts to light a cigarette in the entrance to his makeshift shelter. His shelter is part of a large shantytown that has been constructed near the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, 1990 (1144x754)
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The detonation of a nuclear bomb, by Harold Edgerton’s Rapatronic camera, in 1952 had a shutter speed of one hundred millionths of a second.
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Willem Arondeus was an openly gay Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews. they managed to destroy 800,000 ID cards.(1921)
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Argentine soldiers posing with a penguin during the Falklands War, 1982
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The tenshu (keep) of Nagoya Castle in 1877, before it was destroyed by American air raids in WWII.
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