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Walt Disney with 14 year old Kathryn Beaumont, the off-screen voice of Alice, attending the premiere of the Disney animated version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The 13th release of Disney's animated features, the film premiered in London on 26 July 1951 (London, UK 1951)
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The crew of U-265, taken after their U-boat was sank on February 3rd 1943. Following bad weather, not a single man survived.
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Tsutomu Kasuga (far right) with his teammates, Japanese in Mexico recruited to participate in the front lines of the Mexican Revolution with Pancho Villa. San Luis Potosí, 1930. .
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Austrian police and soldiers stand outside the RAVAG studio in Vienna. The building was overtaken by a group of 15 Nazis during the July Putsch, an attempt by the Nazis to forcefully annex Austria. A small war broke out, with over 100 people on each side being killed, July 25, 1934 .
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Relatives of KAL007 passengers mourning in 1983. A plane shot down by a Soviet SU-15 interceptor.
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk toward the end of his life in the late 1930's. Ataturk was a chain smoker and alcoholic who consumed a half-liter of hard liquor almost every day and was dying of Cirrhosis at the time (1280 X 1494)
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Porters carrying a Mercedes across a stream towards Kathmandu, the only Nepalese city with modern roads, 1948.
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U.S. Navy WAVE aviation metalsmiths at work on an Douglas SBD Dauntless in the Assembly and Repair Department at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida on 24 July 1943
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