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Inside the control room of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 1986.

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Fidel Castro and his first wife Mirta Diaz before the revolution (she died in 2024)

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Notorious Nazi judge Roland Freisler (center) presiding over the "People's Court" trial of the July 20th plotters, who had conspired to assassinate Hitler, 1944. Freisler verbally abused the defendants for hours & sentenced most of them to death, some dying only two hours after sentencing (1280x915)

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A mother and her two daughters at a refugee camp in Luxembourg for former Russian forced laborers. 1 October 1944

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Pedestrians viewing a Jewish-owned store in Berlin damaged during Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938

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US President Calvin Coolidge throwing out the first pitch for game 1 of the 1924 World Series. 4 October 1924

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Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, his Matra Djet sports car & the Monument to the Conquerors of Space in the background, (1965), Russian SFSR

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Test using 36 tons of conventional explosives before the first Swedish atomic bomb test. However, a real nuclear weapon was never built because Sweden abandoned the project despite having the knowledge and materials. 28 August 1957, Vidsel Test Site in Lapland

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Man looking at other posters looking for missing families with one of his own, in front of the KBS building before a historical 138 day long live family-seeking broadcast. Seoul, 1983.

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Chinese general Xu Shiyou (right) orders 80 tanks across the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge to test its strength a few days before its completion, 26 September, 1968.

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John Christie covers his face as he arrives at court in London in 1953, charged with the murder of his wife, Ethel. He was eventually revealed to have been a serial killer.

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The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, seen here under construction in 1964. It opened in November that year.

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