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28 of February of 1947, the first women weightlifting contest sanctioned by the Southern Pacific AAU, was held in LA, Cal.

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The body of former Chilean Army Commander-in-Chief General Carlos Prats after he was assassinated by a car bomb planted by the Chilean secret police while in exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 30 September 1974

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German tanks roll into Vilnius, Lithuania during the transition from Soviet to Nazi occupation in 1941

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Marilyn Monroe poses with soldiers of the US Army during her tour to Korea, February of 1954,

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Abraham Lincoln. 1863, printed 1901.

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Palestinian civilians and Australian soldiers engage in a spirited snowball fight in Jerusalem. January 1942.

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Parade in Paramaribo, Suriname upon the return of Surinamese soldiers from the Dutch East Indies, February 17, 1947.

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People crowd the bodies of those slain while attacking the headquarters of the Hungarian communist party, their bodies covered by flags with the communist emblem torn from the centre, Budapest, 30 October, 1956

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The launch of Imperial Japanese battlecruiser Kongō at Barrow-in-Furness, May 18, 1912.

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"Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!". Photo by Dorothea Langes, 1937.

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Two neighbours, an Albanian and a Serb, near Kosovo Polje, 1981

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U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaks at Moscow State University, 30 May 1988.

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