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Chicago elementary school teacher Kathy Ainsworth enters her classroom. She was part of one of the most militant white supremacist groups of the 1960s. She was killed in a shootout with police in Mississippi after she and a Klansman tried to assassinate a prominent Jewish figure there .
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Iraqi workers clean debris near a large pool of blood at the scene of a suicide attack in the city of Hilla, February 28, 2005. A suicide bomber detonated a car near police recruits and a crowded market, killing 115 people and wounding 148 in bloodiest attack in Iraq since the fall Hussein
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Guarded by 400 troops of the Missouri National Guard, John Henry Riney, a young black man charged with raping a white woman, is escorted to his trial (Arkansas, 1941) .
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French Renault FT-17 light tank which was captured by the Soviets during the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1920, afterwards donated by the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Afghanistan – photo shows U.S. soldiers with the tank, c. 2005.
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Rick Steves: "Here I am, heading off to Europe the day after high school graduation in 1973 — with a budget of $3 a day, a ten-week Eurail pass in my pocket, and the biggest backpack I could find, jam-packed. I came home with no money, a malnourished body, and an enduring love of Europe."
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German refugees cross a destroyed bridge. Elbe River, Germany, May 1, 1945.
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Iraqi prisoner of war comforting his 4-year-old son in Najaf, Iraq March 31, 2003
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Little girl stares towards the hands of a woman preparing the polio vaccine, 1955.
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Field marshal Bernard Montgomery walking with decorated Soviet Marshals in front of the Brandenburg Gate, shortly after the Battle of Berlin. (1945)
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