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British Army Private Carl Hineatt, 19, leaves his IFV after it was set ablaze by petrol bombs in Basra, September 19, 2005. He suffered burns to almost 40% of his body and underwent 25 operations over five years.

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Thanks to the low crime rate, i feel so free here in Singapore (1996)

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Skeletonized corpse of a German soldier outside a trench dugout near Beaumont Hamel, November 1916.

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My grandpa and grandma on their wedding day August 1940

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Pro-segregation protester at the University with a prop, the same day the first 2 African american students were admited, 20 of January 1961

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A boy watches television for the first time through a shop window, 1948

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The mother offered her children for sale in Chicago in 1948 due to extreme poverty hiding her face in shame

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“Tough, I Am” - One Eye Pete, ca 1890

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"The If-Hitler-Loses-We're-Sunk Corporation"—American cartoon from the Second World War, June 1941

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I just posted my grandma at 17, this is her and my grandpa right after they got married. Absolutely stunning, both of them.

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A Wehrmacht officer of the 707th Division hangs two Belorussian teenagers in Nazi-Occupied Minsk, photographed during Operation Barbarossa. October 26, 1941.

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Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust - stands in the yard of Ayalon Prison - in Ramla, Israel, c. April 1961.

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