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The Sword of Stalingrad at the Tsaritsyn-Stalingrad Defense Museum. 1951. (2,170 × 3,024)
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Shiro Ishii was a Surgeon General in the Imperial Japanese Army. He headed the biological warfare department and commanded the infamous Unit 731 which was responsible for numerous gruesome war crimes during 1936-45. He received immunity from the USA in exchange for his research. 1940
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Russian writer Alexander Pushkin and French writer Alexandre Dumas. Each had a Black ancester who was a general in a European army. An old rumor claimed that Pushkin faked his 1837 death in a duel, moved to France, and became Dumas.
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Aerial POV of Bombs being dropped on Kobe, Japan in 1945 during World War 2
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A frame from the film 'Alam Ara', India's first talking film. It was released on 14 March 1931. No print or gramophone record of the film is known to survive, thereby making it a lost film (India)
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The Making of Mount Rushmore, 1939. The faces of the four presidents (Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln) were carved out of solid granite in a massive project that began in 1927 and ended in 1941
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Georges Méliès, director director of the iconic A Trip to the Moon/Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902), standing next to his toy shop, at Gare Montparnasse, Paris 1925 (1200 × 861)
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President Lyndon B. Johnson watches television sets as elections returns are reported, November 3rd, 1964 (2000x1338)
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Zen monks at Asakusa Temple, in Tokyo, perform air raid drills with gas masks in 1936 .
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Sadeq Ghotbzadeh, Western-educated anti-Shah politician responsible for Islamification policies of Iranian state media, serving as personal aide to Ayatollah Khomeini and accompanying him on his AirFrance flight to Iran. 3 years later, Khomeini had him executed. France, 1979
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The original Drifter's Reef Bar, built near the harbor area at Wake Island, opened its doors to air crews, visitors and other "drifters" on November 8, 1949. Photo Waldo Fuller, 8 November 1950
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