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Samuel Phillips Verner (center) with random Africans he bought from African slave traders on behalf of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904 and passed off as "pygmies" at World's Fair.

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Burning Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) on Nov. 10, 1943.

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The crew of a B-24J Liberator, piloted by Captain Howard Slaton, 755th Squadron, 453rd Bomb Group, back at their base at Horsham St Faith, Norfolk after a bombing mission over Germany, Summer of 1944

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"Peace to Caucasus, peace to everybody" 25 January 1995 Grozny/Sölƶa-Ġala

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A woman and her Harley Davidson, 1925.

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Portrait of Emma Welch on her front porch in Cumberland Gap, Claiborne County, TN, 1941

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Trofim Lysenko, the president of the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, measuring the growth of wheat on one of the kolkhoz fields near Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, 1930s. Lysenko is famous for "proving" that nature is communist and for his agricultural policies that led to famine.

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Demonstrators in Tehran's Esfand Square carrying away an injured man during protests, December 27th 1978.

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Chinese tanks from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) - driving past a pile of bodies and bicycles, following the Tiananmen Square Massacre - Beijing, People’s Republic of China, June 4th, 1989.

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A Victorian Home Being Moved By Boat In Tiburon, California, In 1957

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Chinese singer Peng Liyuan, wife of current President of China Xi Jinping, singing for martial law troops in Beijing in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre - 1989

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King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy with his children, 1909

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