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British recruits at the East India Company Military Seminary (military academy at Addiscombe, Surrey) - London, England, United Kingdom, c. 1859.

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World Trade Center, Manhattan, September 10, 2001, photographed by a Canadian tourist, twenty-three years ago today

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President George H.W. Bush checks his watch during a debate with Governor Bill Clinton and H. Ross Perot, 15 October 1992

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The 10th Panchen Lama Chökyi Gyaltsen and his wife Li Jie showing their daughter Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo to Xi Zhongxun and his wife Qi Xin, the parents of current President of China Xi Jinping - 1980s

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American president Lyndon B. Johnson greets children at Wellington Airport during his visit to New Zealand. 20 October 1966.

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In 1956, the Chinese people held massive protests to support Egypt against the triple invasion of British, French and Israeli armies.

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A distraught Chinese man cradles his dead son in his arms, killed in a Japanese terror bombing raid. Nanjing before the Massacre, 1937. .

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Winston Churchill in his swimming suit - 1922

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M18 tank destroyer fires its 90mm gun point blank at a Nazi pillbox emplacement to clear a path through a side street in Brest, France, 1944

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US & Soviet Generals George S Patton & Georgy Zhukov together at a victory parade celebrating the allied defeat of Japan, September 7, 1945. The two men apparently strongly disliked each other, although they did occasionally drink together. (1536x1194)

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Revolutionaries holding a portrait of Ayatollah khomeini - tehran, iran, 1979. (408×612)

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Syngman Rhee, Douglas MacArthur and John Reed Hodge celebrating the formation of Korean government. Seoul, 1948.

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