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Gas masks for babies tested at an English hospital, 1940.

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Fire drill in Cloth Hall Museum in Kraków, Poland. The painting in "Prussian Homage" by Jan Matejko. Poland, 1930.

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A Challenger 2 main battle tank, of the Queens Royal Lancers crosses into Iraq, 21 March 2003 Photo: Cpl Paul Jarvis RLC/MOD

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U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment escort captured Iraqi prisoners of war during Operation Iraqi Freedom. 21 March 2003

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HMS Cleopatra throws out smoke to shield the convoy as HMS Euryalus elevates her forward 5.25 inch guns to shell the Italian Fleet. Second Battle of Sirte. 22 March 1942

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I'm thrilled to share this photo! It's the only one I've ever seen with a child wearing pince-nez glasses. The photo was taken by photographer Joseph E. Williams in New Athens, Ohio, around the late 1800s to early 1900s. (640 x 800) (Colorization) Original in the comments.

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe playing live in a Manchester train station whilst on a UK tour with Muddy Waters in 1964. Video of the concert is linked in the comments (464x400)

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A WMIK from 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, passes a burning oil well as it crosses the border. Iraq 22nd March 2003,

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A group of elderly men sitting on a mat, taken in Peshawar, now in Pakistan, circa 1865. Two of the men are looking at each other with contempt, suggesting that they may actually be enemies who have been persuaded to be photographed together as examples of native "thugs." (1200x900)

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Cuban soldiers during the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, 29 February 1988.

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Ozzy Osbourne showing off how much sugar he likes in his morning coffee - 1984

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Lizzie van Zyl was a 7-year-old Boer girl and an inmate at a British concentration camp. After her father refused to surrender, Lizzie was labeled an "undesirable" and deliberately starved. She died of typhoid fever shortly after this photo was taken, South Africa, 1901 .

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