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Hitchhiker, 1970s
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15 year old Mary Vincent in 1978, spirit unbroken after she was brutally tortured by a Serial Killer who cut off both her arms and threw her off a 30 ft. Cliff. She packed her stumps with mud, climbed the cliff back up and walked for miles naked towards the nearest hospital.
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Hiroshima, Japan, 1945: This shadow that seems almost drawn on the white of five steps, tells the last moments of a person. All that remains is the shadow caused by the flash of the atomic bomb that August 6th.
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US soldiers taking pictures with an 2800 years old statue in the Iraq national museum. Iraq ,Baghdad 2004
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Soviet poster (1944) showing Allied guns surrounding the crumbling Nazi tower. Artist: Vasily Selivanov.
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Muamar Gaddafi and 2 of his elite Bodyguards from the all -female "Amazonian Guard" in the early 2000s.
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Bozo the Clown having a smoke with the mayor of Chicago, Jane Byrne c 1980.
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Franceska Mann (1917-1943) was a courageous Jewish dancer. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Jewish dancer Franceska Mann began to perform a striptease. When the guards asked her to remove her clothes, she took advantage of one of their distractions to steal his weapon and shoot him dead.
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The American flying ace Lt Col Louis Edward Curdes, who shot down planes from all three Axis powers as well as one American. Philippines, 1945
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