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September 11 2001. A rare view of the WTC burning from the perspective of inside a passing plane
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A Union POW after being freed from Andersonville Prison. Although Civil War POW camps in the North and South generally had terrible conditions, Andersonville was particularly horrific. Nearly 13,000 Union POWs died there. This man died months after this photo was taken, Georgia, 1865 .
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In 1956, Malta voted to join the UK. The UK refused as they were worried it would set a precedent for other countries to join, and they would be too expensive to maintain
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A Woman Pins a Flower to a Marching Indian Soldier During World World 1. Circa 1918
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Mushroom cloud forms above what was once a city of 255,000 people. On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay. Over 80,000 were killed instantly, an an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 died later of injuries and radiation exposure
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Robert Falcon Scott reaching the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had gotten there first due to the Norwegian flag 🇳🇴 being planted. 17 January 1912. (1280 x 934)
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Hermann Göring salutes after delivering an eulogy speech for the 6th Army, Berlin Luftwaffe Ministry - 30 January 1943
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March 2003. Sculptor Luis Jiménez stands next to a small model and torso piece of his commissioned statue "Blue Mustang", known to Denver locals as Blucifer. In 2006, Jiménez died in his studio while working on Blue Mustang in which a section came loose and severed an artery in his leg.
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35 years ago the Sumgait pogrom against the ethnic Armenians began (1988-02-27 Sumgait Azerbaijan SSR)
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A scout car crew of Indian soldiers chat with young civilians in San Felice, Italy, 1943
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Funeral of Swedish PM Olof Palme. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination on 28 February 1986. He was shot in the back, while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet. The murder has not been solved (Stockholm, Sweden 1986)
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