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Civil War Photograph in the trenches before Petersburg VA. 1865

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Smith College's class of 1902 women's basketball team.

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This class photo was taken weeks before the Columbine High School shooting. (April 20, 1999) Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who would go on to kill 12 of their classmates and a teacher, can be seen seated at the top left corner posing their hands like guns and pointing towards the camera.

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1926 photo of Eduard Bloch, Jewish Austrian physician who was the Hitler family's personal doctor. He treated Adolf Hitler's mother for breast cancer, reducing or outright eliminating her medical bills. Hitler later declared him an "honorary Aryan" & allowed him to escape to the US. (379x445)

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Truman placed a wreath at the monument of the Los Niños Héroes(1947). 6 Mexican cadets who would rather die than surrender during the Mexican-American war. Asked why he made the visit, Truman said simply, "Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it."

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B-17s being escorted by P-47 fighters on their way to Germany, 1943.

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Stanley Forman’s famous photo Woman Falling From Fire Escape |1975, (1462x2048)

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President Lyndon B Johnson at the signing of the Civil Rights Act, 1964. Political figures such as Robert Kennedy & Hubert Humphrey can be seen in the background. Both Martin Luther King Jr. & FBI director J Edgar Hoover, who launched a campaign of subterfuge against him, are present (8578x8380)

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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia wearing a Native American headdress and sitting between the chiefs of the Cheyenne (L) and Arapaho (R) during the rite of the smoking of the traditional peace pipe. For the occasion the Mayor was given the name of 'Chief of the Rising Clouds' (USA 1938)

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The Battle of Broken Hill has been described as Australia's first terrorist attack. Two Afghan camel drivers who supported the Ottoman Empire went on a shooting spree in New South Wales. They killed four people before being gunned down by the police. These were their rifles, 1915 .

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US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with troops in Afghanistan, December 2001 (2990 × 1960)

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