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A young Republican walks in a street of Barcelona with a gun, July 1936.
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Five kidnapped western tourists held in captivity by an Islamist militant group in the Kashmir valley in 1995. The tourist on the right would escape, the one in the center was beheaded, and the others were never found
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Actor James Gandolfini poses with a bust of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein following the US-led invasion of the country, late 2003. Saddam would be executed 3 years later in December 2006. (1240 X 932)
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National Socialist Movement of Denmark members at a demonstration in the late 1990s.
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Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary Following Their Successful Summit of Mount Everest, 1953
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Len Dawson enjoying a cigarette and Fresca on the sideline of Superbowl I January 15th, 1967
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American Indian Movement (AIM) activists at the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation on March 7, 1973.
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A man feeds the pigeons while the Palace of Justice Siege takes place in front of him. Bogotá, 1985.
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Richard Nixon and his wife Pat attending Ghana’s Independence Day celebrations in March 1957 (697 x 560)
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The first image of the Ebola virus. On 13 October 1976, F. A. Murphy, a CDC virologist, took micrographs of a new virus. After additional tests, it was confirmed that the virus was something entirely new, what would eventually become known as Ebola, named after the Ebola River in DRC
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