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Execution by submachine gun in Thailand (1972-06-19)
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The first boundary marker after the Mexican-American War, protected by a fence from the anger of the local population. 1848
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Canadian Protester uses a hockey stick to shoot tear gas canisters back at riot police during the 2001 Quebec City Protests (2001-04-21)
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Physicist Richard P. Feynman, captured at Los Alamos—the secret site that built the atomic bomb—during World War II (1944)
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Posthumous photo of Roman Shukhevych, a commander of the UPA. A bullet hole is visible on his temple, he shot himself to avoid being captured by Soviet secret police. Known for the ethnic cleanings of Poles from Galicia during WW2 (1950)(400x297)
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Adolf Hitler giving a speech to the German parliament to convince them to pass the Enabling Act which would give him dictatorial powers, 1933
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Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and 4 bears he and other dignitaries hunted. In the early 1970s, he banned all hunting to keep the fattest bears for himself, which he could brag about to other communist leaders. He still holds the European record for the largest bear hunted.
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Unit 731 scientists preparing to make incisions on a strapped-down victim. Between 1936 and 1945. .
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima. The Marine Corps’ costly victory here provided an emergency landing site for B-29 bombers, which increased the range and survival rate of the bombers in the “Island Hopping” campaign to attack the Japanese mainland. (2/19/1945)
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Woman Firefighter from the Achille Serre Ladies Fire Brigade during a drill, London, England, 1926.
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A brigade of Navarrese "Requetés" (carlist paramilitaries) in Pamplona, during the Spanish Civil War (1937)
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