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Rare 1950's photo of Vasily Blokhin, Joseph Stalin's head executioner, in old age. Having personally killed tens of thousands of people in his career, including 7,000 Polish officers in under a month during the "Katyn Massacre," Blokhin was the most prolific murderer in human history. (538 X 800)
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Hitler plays with young Helga Goebbels at the waterfront 1935 (778-1200)
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US ambassador to China James Sasser peers through a heavily-damaged door of the US embassy in Beijing on May 10, following two days of attacks of the embassy by Chinese protesters in response to the American bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on May 7 - 1999
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Rebecca Ann Felton. On 21 November 1922, she became the first woman to serve in the US Senate, although she served for only one day. Felton was a white supremacist and the last slave owner to serve in Senate who spoke vigorously in favor of lynching African Americans (c1922)
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat addresses the Knesset. On 20 November 1977, Sadat became the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel (Jerusalem 1977)
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Israeli Soldier passes Palestinian Children in the West Bank (1989-11-20)
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In 1979 the Skylab space station was meant to fall harmlessly to Earth in the Ocean. Instead it crashed near Esperance in Western Australia. The US State Department received a $400 fine for littering. (1318 × 888)
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1954 mugshot of boxing promoter Don King, who represented pugilistic stars such as Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, taken after King fatally shot a man suspected of trying to rob one of his gambling establishments. (800 X 894)
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Patrice Lumumba calling for the removal of Belgian Troops from the Congo. 20 July 1960 (458 x 480)
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Russian soldier in Grozny during the First Chechen War, sometime 1994-1996
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