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A close-up of the injury to the right ear of Evander Holyfield after Mike Tyson bit off a piece of it in the third round of their World Boxing Association Heavyweight title fight on 28 June 1997 (Las Vegas, Nevada 1997)
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Members of the Hitler Youth stand guard over the coffins of five English schoolboys, who died on a hike in the Black Forest in 1936.
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Armed mujahideen carry animal skins to use as inflatable buoys to cross rapids. Kunar province, 1980. Photograph: Steve McCurry (960x626)
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The fate of RMS Carpathia, the steamship which rescued Titanic survivors. She would be sunk by three torpedos fired from German sub U-55 while en route to Boston, 17 July 1918.
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Saddam Hussein appears at a birthday party for one of the British hostages he held in Kuwait shortly after his invasion, August 1990.
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Major General Maurice Rose, commander of the 3rd Armored Division, receives the Croix de Guerre and an embrace from a French general in mid-March 1945. Less than three weeks later, Rose, considered among the U.S. Army’s finest armored commanders, would be shot dead. (1024x798)
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A Christian wedding during the Lebanese Civil War, Beirut, Lebanon, 1986.
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Mourners gather outside the home of Madge Oberholtzer, a white American woman whose rape and murder played a critical role in the demise of the second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan. April 1925. .
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Literal HistoryPorn- Martin B-26 Marauder “Lilly Commando” of the 573rd BS, 391st BG, 9th AF, 1944
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Police photo of Josip Broz Tito, the Yugoslav leader, from 4.5.1928., after he and several other protesters attempted to free an arrested baker from the hands of the gendarmes in Zagreb. (811x1181)
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