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Female Volunteers with M16-A1 rifles during an IRA training exercise in N.Ireland, 1977

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South Korean school girls lays dead after American armoured vehicle runs them over, 13/06/2002 (398x306)

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Snowing in Opera Avanue, Paris 1916

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British Army recruiting sergeants outside a public house at Westminster. 1877, photographed by John Thomson. If you're interested, I've compiled 17 images taken of London by John Thomson between 1873 and 1877. I'll add the link in the comments. (1080x890)

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"Meeting with Cuban internationalists in Angola": Fidel Castro greets Cuban soldiers during Operation Carlota, 9 September 1986.

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Cuban Army Colonel Jesús Sosa Blanco is publicly tried for war crimes during the Revolution, in front of 17,000 people. He was implicated in dozens of murders. As the enraged crowd screamed for him to be killed, Sosa called the "scene was worthy of ancient Rome", Havana, 1959 .

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Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1866. He was an Italian general considered one of the greatest generals of modern times and nicknamed The Hero of the Two Worlds because he fought both in Europe and South America. He married a Brazilian woman who would fight alongside him. (366x476).

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Three Jewish children on their way to Palestine after being liberated from the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The girl on the left is from Poland, the boy in the center from Latvia, and the girl on the right from Hungary, 1945 (535x649)

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On 18 March 1965 Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov steps from the spacecraft Voskhod 2 to become the first man to walk in outer space. He was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes and 9 seconds (Outer Space 1965)

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Italian General Giuseppe Castellano bewteen British General Kenneth Strong and American General Walter Bedell Smith after signing the Italian surrender to the Allies, 3 September 1943

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Cherokee men of Thomases Legion at a veterans reunion in 1903

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Duke of Caxias in 1878, nicknamed The Peacemaker and The Iron Duke, was the Supreme Comander of the Brazilian Army during the Paraguyan War. He is regarded as one the greatest minds in military affairs in South America history. (850x1155).

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