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Young lady shows off her dresses made of flour sacks, circa late 1930s.
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The corpse of a little boy laying in the street following the battle of Tampere, the bloodiest engagement of the Finnish civil war, 1918. In the aftermath, white army forces ruthlessly slaughtered much of the red army along with all of the Russians in the city, including women & children (2953x1728)
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A tourist from Saudi Arabia prays at the North Pole against the background of a Soviet nuclear icebreaker, 1990.
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Five SS men are forced to walk past the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering. They'd changed into civilian clothes in a failed attempt to evade capture. According to the photographer, the five men were all shot after this photo was taken (Germany, May 6, 1945) .
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Survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, poses 2 years after the bombing, Hiroshima, Japan, 1947
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British soldier and intelligence officer Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) disguised as a Syrian Gypsy woman in enemy territory, C. 1918. (504x675)
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