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A photo of the aftermath of the bombing of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108. All 23 people on board were killed. The bombing was the first attack on civil aviation in North America, Quebec, 1949 .

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Titanic's Lifeboat 6 approaches the RMS Carpathia. It had room for 36 more people. April 15, 1912.

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Canada 1967 - La Tuque Residential School Hockey Team

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The United States Board of Tea Experts assembled for the first time since 1942 to set up minimum standards for the eight to ten different types of tea that will be coming into the country for the following year, Feb. 17, 1947

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Martin Luther King's Funeral in Memphis funeral home,1968 April 5(1024X682)

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A man selling brooms and baskets. Japan, 1890-1896

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British Army fatigue party carrying duckboards over a support line trench at night. Cambrai, 12 January 1917. (Colourized)

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1979: The last confirmed grizzly bear in Colorado, killed in self-defense mid-attack.

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1970: Primatologist Dian Fossey and young male gorilla Peanuts, who is copying her.

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Belongings of Srebrenica Genocide victims litter a road after the mass execution of men and boys. 17 July 1995

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Joseph Stalin, future leader of the Soviet Union. Mugshot taken sometime in 1911, he was arrested by the Tsarist Secret Police for revolutionary activities

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Major David G. Bellemere in front of B-24H Liberator "Tepee Time Gal," of the 455th BG, San Giovanni, Italy, circa late 1944. He's wearing typical flight gear including an F-2 electrical flying suit with a flak vest and B-3 jacket, and an M4 flak helmet with Polaroid B-8 goggles.

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