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7-year-old Nermin Divović lies face down in a pool of blood, shot and killed by a sniper after approaching a U.N. vehicle in the streets of besieged Sarajevo, November 18, 1994
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What's the difference between a prisoner of war and a homeless person? (American poster by Guerrilla Girls. United States of America, 1991)
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A student protester gives the V for victory sign in front of Chinese soldiers of the PLA. Tiananmen square, 1 June 1989. Photo taken by Peter Charlesworth.
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Paul Newman and Marlon Brando stood up for justice at a civil rights march on August 23, 1963.
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An Australian POW, Sgt. Leonard Siffleet, captured in New Guinea, about to be beheaded by a Japanese officer with a guntō, 1943. This photo is often misidentified as Flight Lieutenant Bill Newton, who suffered a similar fate.
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In 1943, Man and his German Shepherd takes photos together in a booth.
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Portrait of Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim 1910. Refusing to enter a lifeboat, he reportedly asked a steward to inform his family "that I played the game straight to the end and that no women was left on board this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward" (1437 x 1600)
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A battle-weary soldier from George S. Patton’s Third Army sleeps on the luxurious bed where Hermann Goering once slept, 1945.
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Portrait of a young girl living at the Jewish orphanage in Sosnowiec, Poland. (1946) (872×1200)
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