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Police raided the Scientology headquarters in Toronto and seized an estimated 250,000 documents in more than 900 boxes. 1983. .
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A group of youngsters tied a bicycle tubes around their body as a swimming aid. Germany, 1925.
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A Polish girl walks in front of a March for the Kurdish people in the Polish city of Kielce, 1974. (560x752)
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National Guardsmen on a jeep as they patrol the streets of the Watts neighborhood after the declaration of Marshall Law due to ongoing riots. Nearly 14,000 members of the National Guard helped suppress the disturbance, which resulted in 34 deaths (Los Angeles, California 1965)
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Composer Giacomo Puccini and conductor Arturo Toscanini looking dapper, 1910. They were in New York for the debut of Puccini's opera La fanciulla del West.
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Capt. James H. Carlyle of Denver, Colorado, drinking beer while soaking in a tub of hot sulphur water after being in action for weeks on Iwo Jima, 1945
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Hungarian revolution of 1956, a woman holding a old bolt action M91/30 rifle and the massive Soviet ISU-152s knocked out by her group.(355 × 482)
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A US Army Air Forces Consolidated B-24 Liberator during a bombing run over Salamaua, New Guinea. 13 August 1943
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French neurologist Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (right) carries out an experiment in electrophysiology by triggering a subject's muscles with electrical probes in order to produce a given facial expression, circa 1862.
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