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US soldiers taking pictures with an 2800 years old statue in the Iraq national museum. Iraq ,Baghdad 2004
Posted 23 days ago
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Soviet poster (1944) showing Allied guns surrounding the crumbling Nazi tower. Artist: Vasily Selivanov.
Posted 23 days ago
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Muamar Gaddafi and 2 of his elite Bodyguards from the all -female "Amazonian Guard" in the early 2000s.
Posted 24 days ago
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Bozo the Clown having a smoke with the mayor of Chicago, Jane Byrne c 1980.
Posted 24 days ago
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Franceska Mann (1917-1943) was a courageous Jewish dancer. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Jewish dancer Franceska Mann began to perform a striptease. When the guards asked her to remove her clothes, she took advantage of one of their distractions to steal his weapon and shoot him dead.
Posted 24 days ago
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The American flying ace Lt Col Louis Edward Curdes, who shot down planes from all three Axis powers as well as one American. Philippines, 1945
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German General Heinz Guderian sharing a laugh with Soviet General Semyon Krivoshein (who was also Jewish) during the German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk on September 22, 1939.
Posted 25 days ago
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