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Soviet and US athletes at the opening ceremony of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, with Yugoslav athletes in between them (February 13, 1980)
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Buddhas of Bamiyan statue in Afghanistan before its destruction in 1992.
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ATM surveillance image of Maura Murray on February 9, 2004, one of the last known photograph of her, taken just hours before she disappeared .
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Ottoman officer with his children and their dog, Istanbul, 1910s 🇹🇷(1024x1024)
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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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