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Attu village, Attu island, Alaska in June 1937
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Austrian police and soldiers stand outside the RAVAG studio in Vienna. The building was overtaken by a group of 15 Nazis during the July Putsch, an attempt by the Nazis to forcefully annex Austria. A small war broke out, with over 100 people on each side being killed, July 25, 1934 .
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Relatives of KAL007 passengers mourning in 1983. A plane shot down by a Soviet SU-15 interceptor.
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk toward the end of his life in the late 1930's. Ataturk was a chain smoker and alcoholic who consumed a half-liter of hard liquor almost every day and was dying of Cirrhosis at the time (1280 X 1494)
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Porters carrying a Mercedes across a stream towards Kathmandu, the only Nepalese city with modern roads, 1948.
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U.S. Navy WAVE aviation metalsmiths at work on an Douglas SBD Dauntless in the Assembly and Repair Department at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida on 24 July 1943
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Scene on Asan Beach, Guam an hour and a half after the first landings by American forces. 21 July 1944
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Photograph of Cheng Benhua moments before her execution by bayonet. She led a Chinese guerrilla movement against the Japanese during the invasion of her country: before being captured in 1938. In captivity, she was cruelly tortured by interpreters and gang raped by several guards.
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A Class in Pole-Climbing in the course for telephone electricians with some of their instructors, Vocational training for S.A.T.C. in University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan circa 1918.
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The RMS Titanic, narrowly avoiding a collision with the SS New York. If not for the quick thinking of Titanic's captain and the crew of the tugboats, Titanic's maiden voyage may have been cut short mere minutes after it began. April 10th, 1912.
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