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A man selling brooms and baskets. Japan, 1890-1896
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British Army fatigue party carrying duckboards over a support line trench at night. Cambrai, 12 January 1917. (Colourized)
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1979: The last confirmed grizzly bear in Colorado, killed in self-defense mid-attack.
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1970: Primatologist Dian Fossey and young male gorilla Peanuts, who is copying her.
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Belongings of Srebrenica Genocide victims litter a road after the mass execution of men and boys. 17 July 1995
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Joseph Stalin, future leader of the Soviet Union. Mugshot taken sometime in 1911, he was arrested by the Tsarist Secret Police for revolutionary activities
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Major David G. Bellemere in front of B-24H Liberator "Tepee Time Gal," of the 455th BG, San Giovanni, Italy, circa late 1944. He's wearing typical flight gear including an F-2 electrical flying suit with a flak vest and B-3 jacket, and an M4 flak helmet with Polaroid B-8 goggles.
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Children mutilated by Congo Soldiers. Soldiers were required to provide the hand of their victims as proof when they had shot and killed someone, but to save ammunition they sometimes "cheated" by simply cutting off the hand and leaving the victim to live or die (Congo Free State 1904)
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Ronald Reagan “punching” Muhammad Ali during his visit to the White House, 1983. Reagan was born 112 years ago on 06 Feb 1911.
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Michael Jordan #23 of the Chicago Bulls attempts a dunk during the 1988 Slam Dunk Contest at Chicago Stadium (Chicago, Illinois 1988)
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1976 Photo from the restaurant Windows on the World, which sat atop New York City's World Trade Center's north tower. (Photo by Ezra Stoller)
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