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Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and his wife Michèle flee to the airport amid nationwide demonstrations. They fled to France on 7 February 1986.
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(seated on the left) Prime Minister of Albania, Essad Toptani, with high-ranking Allied officers, looking at documents in a large tent - on the Salonika Front, c. 1916 - September 1918.
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Renowned psychotherapist and Auschwitz survivor Dr Viktor Frankl in 1947, a few years after losing his wife, unborn child, parents, and brother in the Nazi camps
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Polish-Soviet War, Battle of Warsaw: Polish defences with a machine gun position near Miłosna, in the village of Janki, August 1920.
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An elderly Welsh woman standing outside of her small home ‘Tŷ unnos’ – in rural Wales - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, c. 1880.
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The Defense of the Pioneers, Leningrad, 1937. Photographer Victor Bulla
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Wairere House in Whanganui, New Zealand after a suicide bombing in 1982. It was home to the National Law Enforcement System database.
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Anthropologist Alexander K. Serzhputovsky and an Afro-Abkhaz family in Adzyubzha, Sukhumi okrug, Russian Empire. 1912
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South Korean spy chief Kim Jae-Gyu and some of his collaborators reenacting his assassination of President Park Chung Hee, formerly one of his closest friends, as part of an investigation into the slaying, 1979. Kim and his co-conspirators would be executed the following year. (1200x779)
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Frank Halford, Frank Whittle, Geoffrey de Havilland, and Charles Clement Walker are standing next to Comet prototype, the only one with single main undercarriage wheels in 1949
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Early 1900's portrait of Mexican general, statesman & dictator Porfirio Diaz, who was president 3 times from 1876-1911, respectively, for 8 days, 46 months, & 26 years. Despite rising to power on promises of "no re-election," Diaz served 7 terms, later triggering the Mexican revolution (2274x1516)
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Brazilian imperial prince Dom Augusto in typical Japanese attire during a stopover of the cruiser Almirante Barroso in Japan, in 1889.
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