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Frank Soo (1930s), the first non-white footballer to play for the English Football League and represent England. His dad was a Chinese sailor, his mom an English woman.

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The US Army Air Forces B-17G Flying Fortress "Miss Donna Mae II" is hit by friendly fire after it drifted into the path of 1,000 lbs bombs from the plane above it during a raid on Berlin, Germany. 19 May 1944

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Alexander Grothendieck, considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th century, teaching mathematics at Hanoi University in 1967 to protest foreign involvement in the Vietnam war

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Settela Steinbach, a Romani girl from the Netherlands, transported from Camp Westerbork to extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. 19 May 1944

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Aftermath of the bombing of Bath Consolidated School in Clinton County, Michigan on May 18, 1927. The attacks killed 38 children and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people.

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Polish soldiers inside the ruined Monte Cassino monastery, Italy 18 May 1944

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Persian woman holding a Kalgan waterpipe used for smoking, circa 1890.

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A Chinese woman and child in the UK, 1920s

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Grover’s Mill resident William Dock ready to defend against martians after listening to the War of the Worlds, a radio drama about an alien invasion. 1938 (986x796)

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Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev, 1936

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Soldiers of the Zimbabwe Army on parade at Harare's Rufaro Stadium, 1984.

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Lt Audie Murphy wearing his Medal of Honor at the Hohenwerfen Castle where the headquarters of the US 15th Infantry Regiment was located, Werfen, Salzburg, Austria, 2 Jun 1945

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