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A father and son from the same German regiment reading a letter from their wife and mother, 1915. The son is a volunteer in the same company in which his father is a regular.

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Protestors shove a giant inflatable penis into the entrance of a bank in a protest during the 2001-2002 Argentine economic crisis (896x600)

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WWE wrestlers Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero celebrate their victory at WrestleMania 20, March 14th, 2004

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1968 portrait of Pavel Batitsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union and 1965 recipient of the "Hero of the Soviet Union" title, considered the greatest honor in Soviet society. In 1953 he personally shot Internal Affairs minister Lavrentiy Beria during an inter-party power struggle. (1126x970)

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1940 portrait of Hugo Sperrle, Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe. He survived WWII and was tried at Nuremberg, but was acquitted (2782x3780)

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Stanisław "Szlomo" Szmajzner as partisan, shortly after his escape from Sobibor. 16-year-old Szmajzner was one of several hundred prisoners of the Sobibór extermination camp who rebelled and escaped to the forest, and one of several dozen fugitives who survived the war. Autumn 1943

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Diana, Princess of Wales, and Prince Charles pose for the official photograph by Lord Lichfield in Buckingham Palace at their wedding (London, UK 1981)

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American soldier returning home from The Great War, ca 1918-19

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Young Xi Jinping (front, second from left) with his family in Beijing - 1950s

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Ojibwe Woman, Ponemah, Minnesota, Photograph taken by Roland W. Reed c.1908

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A businessman and secretary working in a pool during a heatwave in Berlin, Germany 1926.

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