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The Vichy French battleship Jean Bart which was bombed by the US at Casablanca, 16 November 1942.
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Martin Luther King holds a picture of three missing civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman during a press conference. The activists were abducted and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan, in what is known as the Mississippi Burning murders (Mississippi 1964)
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Franz Reichelt, a French tailor and inventor who was an early pioneer of parachuting. In 1910-1912 he developed a wearable suit for pilots that would expand into a parachute should they need to eject themselves from their aircraft. The test jump from the Eiffel Tower ended tragically. (800x800)
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Bathysphere: The World’s First Deep-Sea Exploration Vessel, 1930s. It was created by American naturalist William Beebe, pictured inside the vessel, and engineer Otis Barton.
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2 boys (vaccinated earlier and unvaccinated) during pox epidemy in London, beginning of 1900s
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American soldiers looking down at Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre. 1968 (2000×2588)
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Four SS men pose for a group photo in the Treblinka extermination camp. Each one of them personally committed mass murder. Paul Bredow (leftmost) shot 50 Jews every day for "target practice". Josef Hirtreiter (rightmost) smashed the heads of infants against walls, 1940s .
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Emperor of Central Africa Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Bokassa I), seated on his golden throne for his coronation, Bangui, Central African Republic. December 4, 1977. (1200x860)
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