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Princess Diana visits British Petroleum's 'Forties Charlie' oil platform off the Scottish coast, Sept. 3 1985

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This 1870 image is considered the first actual photograph taken of a battle. Taken during the Franco-Prussian war, it shows a line of Prussian troops advancing. The photographer stood with the French defenders when he captured this image.

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In May 1949, Charles L. Langs announced a daring innovation in beachwear: a pair of bra cups a woman could affix to her breasts with an adhesive. His idea was to use individual strapless cups for each breast, backed with specially developed glue. (1600x1055)

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Indian Army Sikh personnel in action during the successful Operation Crusader in December 1941. (631×484)

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Henry Magruder, a notorious bushwhacker. Bushwhackers were pro-Confederate guerillas who were active in the 1860s. They led raids against the military. Many were also notorious for committing war crimes. Magruder raped multiple women and burned a free black man alive .

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A Warrior IFV from 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, encounters an Iraqi man on his morning walk. Basra, Iraq. 29th March 2003.

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German soldiers advance through the Somme wasteland during Operation Michael, the beginning of the German spring offensive. March 1918

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USAAF North American B-25 Mitchell bombers flying near Mount Vesuvius during its eruption in March 1944

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First King of Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud with his sons Prince Faisal (on the left) and Prince Saud (on the right) in the early 1950s

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Field Marshall Erwin Rommel inspecting the beach defenses in Normandy 1944 .

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Czechoslovak railroad workers defrosting railroad tracks using a MiG-15 engine during a severe snow storm in 1970

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A British soldier wounded in the leg is given a blood transfusion in an operating theatre at an Advanced Dressing Station in Italy, 1944

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