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General Augusto Pinochet transfers power to democratically elected President Patricio Aylwin, bringing the 17-year-old dictatorship in Chile to an end. 11 March 1990

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A soldier from 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, armed with a flamethrower. Kapyong, South Korea, spring 1951.

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Woman on roof of apartment in New York, New York watching the World Trade Center burn blocks away - 2001

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The Duke of York, later King George VI of Great Britain on a slide at the Wembley exhibition, England. 1925.

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Sorority sisters, University of Texas, 1944.

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King Charles III on the Buckingham palace balcony after his mother's coronation in 1953

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1907, East African victim of the Middle-East slave trade has his leg irons removed by a sailor of the British Royal Navy aboard HMS Sphinx.

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A boy on Krampus shoulders during a parade, Mitterndorf, Austria, 6th of Dec 1949

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Actress Carrie Fisher poses on the beach for Star Wars (Stinson Beach, California 1983) May the Fourth be with you!

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1923 Miss America Mary Katherine Campbell, who also won in 1922 at age 16, is the only woman to win twice

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Onlookers in Marseille watching French battle flags being taken for transport to Africa after the German conquest of France, 1940.

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A victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. August 1945.

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