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British Police using a battering ram to forcibly evict a tenant (1888, Ireland) .
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American aviation pioneer and writer, Amelia Earhart, during her visit to Chicago, Illinois: a month after having completed her first flight across the Atlantic from Newfoundland, Canada, to Wales, c. July 1928.
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Marilyn Monroe performing for thousands of American troops in Korea, 1954
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Over 1,000 people perished when the paddle steamer 'General Slocum' caught fire and sank in the East River at North Brother Island, just off the Bronx, NY on 15th June 1904. (800x499)
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Aerial view of the Japanese aircraft carrier Sōryū evading an air attack during the Battle of Midway, 1942.
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A death squad mercenary stops for a lunch break in El Salvador. The photographer said he bought the man a beer and “took three shots before he went ballistic”, 1980s .
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Jan Kubiš (left) and Jozef Gabčík (right), soldiers who assassinated SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, Photo is also taken around that year. (1024x619)
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Brenda Ann Spencer (16 y.o) in Santa Ana, Ca, after pleading guilty to two counts of murder in a sniper attack, 1979. Colorized.
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Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, for 20 days he served as the second (and final) leader of Third Reich Germany. Age 89, taken months before his death. 1980
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Japanese-Americans at an internment camp in the Pacific Northwest, Early 1940s,
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