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US Marines on dawn patrol in Vietnam, 1969.
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Aftermath of the April 18, 1906 earthquake and fires in San Francisco CA USA
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Col. Stauffenberg, Wilhelm Keitel, and Hitler days before the 20 July plot. 1944.
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Book smuggler (knygnešys), Vincas Juska. 1868 (638x1176) More info about Lithuanian book smugglers in the comments.
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Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre having a discussion with Ernesto “Che” Guevara - 1960 -
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On this day in 1955, Albert Einstein died. This was his desk as he left it, photographed just hours after his death. Armed with his camera and a case of scotch (to open doors and loosen tongues), Life photographer Ralph Morse captured images that lay hidden away for 50 years. (1010x1000)
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Start of the inaugural Monaco Grand Prix. Crowds watch as the cars speed along the street, led by the Bugatti driven by Marcel Lehoux. The first Monaco Grand Prix was staged on 14 April 1929, and was won by Grover-Williams in a Bugatti (Monaco 1929)
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Vietnamese soldiers waving goodbye to Cambodian villagers during the withdrawal of the Vietnamese army from Cambodia, the end of the Cambodian-Vietnamese War 1989
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Recovering British soldiers playing basketball with W.A.A.C.s in France, 1918. (Colourized)
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Heinrich Himmler at the funeral of Reinhard Heydrich, an architect of the Holocaust who was assasinated by two Czech parachuters on May 27th and died in hospital from the infection transmitted by his Maybach's horse hair components in the blast to his vital organs on June 4th. June 9, 1942.
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