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Japanese serial rapist, serial killer, Navy veteran, and self-confessed war criminal Yoshio Kodaira, whose face is concealed with a straw hat, is escorted into court. In addition to killing several Japanese women, Kodaira said he committed various war crimes while in China, 1947 .

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Department store in Tokyo, Japan, 1963. Photo by Frank Horvat.

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Soldier of the communist 8th Route Army eating a meal during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1944

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Winston Churchill in 1898

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Subcomandante Marcos, the spokesman of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, striking a pose while smoking a pipe atop a horse in Chiapas, Mexico, 1996.

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at age 22, March of 1986 (1209x743)

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A prototype spacesuit for the moon designed by the Republic Aviation Corporation, March 16, 1960.

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British soldier captures German tank crewman during the Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt. Circa October/November, 1942

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Removing a Nazi flag from the German consulate in San Francisco, January 19, 1941

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Homecoming — a British soldier with his 8 month old daughter as he arrives at the docks from overseas, 1945.

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14 year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. being lead to the execution chamber where he was executed by electric chair at South Carolina Penitentiary. The youngest person executed in the USA. June 16, 1944 (220x211)

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Mao Zedong preparing for swimming in his Lushan resort, 1961. (980x735)

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