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The Common Court of the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, from the left a French judge, the president of the court (appointed by the impartial King of Spain) and a British judge. After the last president retired in 1939, the position was abolished. 1914

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Elements of the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" advancing towards Voronezh during the Battle of Kursk, July 1943

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Coronation of King George VI, London, 1937. Photo by Henry Cartier-Bresson. .

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U.S. Marine with a captured pair of Imperial Japanese Shinyo-class Kamikaze motorboats on the island of Okinawa: during the Battle of Okinawa, c. April - June 1945.

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Telegraph office in the Vatican (Rome, Italy 1912)

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Sir Oswald Mosley takes the salute from some fascist friends, 1936. .

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Pro and anti abortion demonstrators in Binnenhof, Netherlands, 30 October 1974

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The train carrying Zhang Zuolin after it exploded at the Huanggutun Railway Station. Zhang Zuolin was a Chinese warlord who ruled Manchuria from 1916 to 1928. The explotion had been plotted and committed by the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army (Shenyang, China 1928)

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A group of astronaut candidates take a break during their training. In the coming years, they will be the first five American women in space. circa August 1978. .

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Trịnh Tố Tâm being awarded the "Heroic American Killer" medal for the 53rd time, 1971

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78-year-old Robert T. Lincoln (son of Abraham Lincoln) is helped up the steps at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., 1922.

Posted 21 days ago