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"Racism tears Britain apart." - 2002 NUS/UJS Poster
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Chernobyl cleanup"Liquidators" cleaning off debris from the roof of the Chernobyl Nuclear power station,1986. Note the streaks on the photo film due to radiation exposure.
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During nighttime training, Australian troops were practicing a landing at the edge of a dam. To make the maneuver more realistic, explosives were used to simulate battlefield conditions. The drill took an unexpected turn when a charge of gelignite detonated under their boat. June 1942.
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The dead bodies of the Dalton Gang following their demise in the shootout during the 1892 Coffeyville bank robbery.
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Lyndon B. Johnson yelling at the pilots of a nearby plane to cut their engines so that John F. Kennedy could speak as Kennedy is seen trying to calm him down. Taken during the 1960 presidential campaign in Amarillo, Texas.
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A bride who received a gift from her U.S. Marine fiancé containing the skull of a Japanese soldier he had killed writes him a letter of gratitude in response. The photo was published in Life magazine on May 22, 1944.
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Japanese high school students playing mahjong and injecting methamphetamine (Hiropon, ヒロポン) (ca. 1950)
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