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“Desert Rats” of the SAS on patrol in North Africa, January 18, 1943.

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A police officer (hard at work) issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini 1957.

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FBI agents investigate the car in which John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, responsible for the sniper attacks in DC, were arrested. 24 October 2002.

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4.05.1970 John Filo with a camera in hand, overlooking the National Guardsmen near students protesting expanding the US involvement in Vietnam war, the day of Kent State Massacre

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Two Turkish wrestlers and a former Greek wrestler (right, Antionio Pierri "the terrible Greek") during a Greco-Roman wrestling competition in the United States in 1909.

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Iranian student on the streets of Tehran – during the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty, bringing in the Islamic Republic, c. January 1978 - February 1979.

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British Army Bomb Defusal Specialist draws a crowd as he inspects a suspicious package during the Pro-CCP Riots in Hong Kong (1967)

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The gunner of an M48 Patton looks through his sight during the Vietnam war. Winner of the World Press Photo of the Year contest, 1967. Taken by Co Rentmeester.

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Cult leader and self-proclaimed messiah of Koreshanity, Cyrus Teed pictured after 3 days of laying dead in a bathtub. His followers expected him to rise from the dead. (Dec 25, 1908)

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An M4 Sherman of Charlie Company, 741st Tank Battalion after being hit by a Panzerfaust on the intersection of Karl Heine Str. and Zschochersche Str, Leipzig, 18th April 1945. All 5 crew members were Killed in Action

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Russian linguist and decipher of the Mayan script Yuri Knorozov holding his cat Asya. He always listed Asya as his co-author, but the editors always removed her. He also always used this photo taken around 1980 as the author photo, and was annoyed when the editors cropped her out.

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