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The newly completed battleship HMS Vanguard is guided by tugs in 1946.

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Italian partisans relax while waiting to go on a patrol near Castellucio, Italy. 5 October 1944

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War journalists taking a seat at the place where Clement Attlee, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin sat at the historical meeting. Potsdam, 1945.

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Child soldier in Mexico City, Mexico, during the "Decena Tragica" Feb 9-18 of 1913.

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Before GPS, it was possible to get driving directions through a navigation switchboard. 1963 (Photo from the Netherlands)

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The earliest known photo ever taken of Cambodian dictator and mass-murderer Pol Pot, taken in the 1940’s-50’s when he was a student in Paris. (468x424)

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The crew of Royal Navy submarine HMS Unison display their 'Jolly Roger' after returning to Plymouth from a successful 16 months in the Mediterranean, 10 October 1943

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Simone Segouin (1925-2023), a French partisan credited with capturing 25 German Nazis in the Chartres area, poses with an MP 40 submachine gun in 1944 (photo taken in 1944, she was 19 at the time)

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Canadian soldiers with captured nazi flag, france,1944

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Opera diva Maria Callas meets Marilyn Monroe during the Birthday party of JFK in Madison Suqare Garden, NY, 19 of May of 1962.

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Looters mill in the parking lot of the ABC Market in South Central Los Angeles, April 30, 1992, as violence and looting ensued on the first day of riots following the verdicts in the Rodney King assault case.

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Robert F. Kennedy's wife, Ethel, attempts to comfort him as lay mortally wounded on floor of the kitchen in the Ambassador Hotel. June 6, 1968. RIP

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