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To celebrate the last day of school in my town here’s a bunch of happy kids kicking off the summer of 1977
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The USS Ponaganset broke into two pieces in the Boston dock for no apparent reason on 9 December 1947. Due to the cold-brittle steel used in shipyards during World War II, similar sudden cracks destroyed 10 or more T2-class tankers.
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View of a lineman working on power. Telephone lines at an intersection in Pratt, Kansas, USA, 1911.
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Warsaw Insurgents at the barricade on Żelazna Street, August 1944. Photo by Sylwester "Kris" Braun.
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May 21st, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flies into Le Bourget Field, Paris, France aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, becoming the first person to fly Solo Across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Funeral for a child of the Widener family. The family stands at the graveside with open coffin of the deceased child. Robertson Cemetery, Claiborne County, Tennessee, 1950. (Tennessee State Library and Archives)
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US soldiers Jarrell Isaacson and Jeffrey Hale resting during combat in Baghdad, 4 April 2003, Iraq War.
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During the Battle of the Bulge, GIs of the 486th Armored Anti-Aircraft Battalion, 3rd Armored Division, pause for a meal near Trou-Du-Bois, Belgium, December 1944.
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A wounded German soldier is moved off the line in Crimea, exactly 1 year on from Operation Barbarossa, 22nd June 1942
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The last image taken of British explorers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine as they were about to leave Camp IV on the morning of June 6, 1924, for their ill-fated attempt to summit Mount Everest. Mallory's body was found in 1999, Irvine’s body has yet to be found .
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