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Hermann Göring salutes after delivering an eulogy speech for the 6th Army, Berlin Luftwaffe Ministry - 30 January 1943
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March 2003. Sculptor Luis Jiménez stands next to a small model and torso piece of his commissioned statue "Blue Mustang", known to Denver locals as Blucifer. In 2006, Jiménez died in his studio while working on Blue Mustang in which a section came loose and severed an artery in his leg.
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35 years ago the Sumgait pogrom against the ethnic Armenians began (1988-02-27 Sumgait Azerbaijan SSR)
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A scout car crew of Indian soldiers chat with young civilians in San Felice, Italy, 1943
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Funeral of Swedish PM Olof Palme. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination on 28 February 1986. He was shot in the back, while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet. The murder has not been solved (Stockholm, Sweden 1986)
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August, 1983. A farmer about to eat a lizard in order not to starve to death in Ceará, Brazil
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"The Soiling of Old Glory", Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of civil rights protestor Ted Landsmark being assaulted with US flag during anti school desegregation protests in Boston on April 5, 1976. The image was featured in the opening scene of the film "The Departed".
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After being evacuated from Dunkirk, British troops aboard a destroyer arrive at Dover, May 1940
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Corpses of Waffen-SS soldiers fallen at the Third Battle of Kharkov, 1943.
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A naked protestor taunts a police water cannon during riots outside the 3rd Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001.
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U.S. Eighth Air Force B-17s on a bombing run over Donauwörth, Germany. April, 1945
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