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Laboratory technician holding an anthrax-laced letter sent to American Senator Patrick Leahy. October 9 2001
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Jean-Marie Loret, alleged illegitimate French son of Hitler in the 1970s. According to Loret, an "unknown Prussian soldier" listed in documents as his father in 1917, later became dictator. The consensus among historians on these claims is that they are unlikely or impossible to prove.
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Two Afghan women walk past the huge cavity where one of the ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan, known to locals as the "Father Buddha," used to stand, Afghanistan, June 17, 2012.
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Malcolm X gets transported from the Audubon Ballroom to the hospital after he was shot in 1965. He later succumbed to his 21 gunshot and ten buckshot wounds.
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A photograph of a group of sumo wrestlers, taken by an unknown photographer in July 1885. The man in the centre is proudly displaying his tattooed body (Japan 1885)
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The disarmament of the Argentines after the defeat in the Falklands War, 1982 .
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Freed Korean laborers help U.S. Forces to locate Japanese positions on Kwajalein Island. 2 February 1944
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General Song Shilun (bottom left) in a group photo with his staff in Korea, early 1951. He is mostly known for leading the Chinese PVA 9th Army against American forces at the Battle of Lake Chosin, where he would win a Pyrrhic victory and expel US forces from Northeastern Korea.
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Stuntman Dar Robertson jumps from the window of a seven-storey building to demonstrate a new life-saving device, an inflatable bag designed to save lives in the event of a fire, 25 February 1974. (800x548)
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Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong meeting with Cambodian communist dictator Pol Pot, 1975. Mao lent extensive support to the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's communist party, sending them over $1 Billion in aid that year alone. Both men killed enormous portions of their country's populations. (680x461)
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