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Willem Arondeus was an openly gay Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews. they managed to destroy 800,000 ID cards.(1921)
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Argentine soldiers posing with a penguin during the Falklands War, 1982
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The tenshu (keep) of Nagoya Castle in 1877, before it was destroyed by American air raids in WWII.
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In 1945 a B-25 bomber got lost in the fog and crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building.
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A banner announcing the opening of Great Dog Butchery, a canine butchery in Paris, France, 1910
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A Photo of Theodore Roosevelt's bloodied shirt after being shot giving a campaign speech in milwaukee 1912 he went on to finish his speech before going to hospital. (620 × 348)
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Two of the most brutal dictators in the history of the continent of Africa meet. Idi Amin Dada of Uganda and Jean Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Republic. Uganda. 1972. 1436x992
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Photograph taken by Richard Drew, Associated Press photographer, showing a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Five years after the attacks, the man was identified as Jonathan Briley. (446x620)
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Abandoned boy holding a stuffed animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1945. Resolution -(1542x1600)
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Graves of a Catholic Woman and her protestant husband in Holland, c.1888 (1170x880)
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A young woman making adjustments on the lovely dress she has sewn with her singer sewing machine. 1920s
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