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Benito Mussolini with his Wife Donna Rachele at the Beach, 1920's

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"Soldier, would you mind standing up? I'd like to take your picture,” Robert Capa said to me. “It was the last good picture of my right leg.” — James Conboy Jr (1945)

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Demmin, a German city overwhelmed by the bodies of suicide victims. Soviet officers observe the bodies of two German civilians who committed suicide in April 1945. | Anonymous

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Execution of Laszlo Bardossy, Budapest, Hungary 1946. Photo by Lee Miller

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A flag-waving veteran of the Red Army confronting an anti-communist protester in Moscow, circa 1990.

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University of Madras student ties his hair to nail to prevent sleeping at night while preparing for exams, 1905

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Mogadishu in the 1960's, 1970's.

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Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreigner, from the German consul in Cleveland in July 1938

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Parade of deported Germans in October 1959 West Germany protesting post WW2 era treatment (1280x841)

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Museum curator Majorie Courtenay-Latimer with the taxidermied remains of the coelacanth she discovered while looking through a pile of fish caught in East London, South Africa on December 22nd,1938

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German submarine U-848 just before being sunk in the South Atlantic on 5 November 1943 with all 63 hands on board. The image was taken from a low flying American PB4Y-1 aircraft while German sailors are taking cover on the conning tower

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Piles of bowls litter the snow-covered railroad tracks leading to the main gate of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, after it was liberated by the 322nd Rifle Division of the Soviet Army, on January 27th, 1945.

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