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The earliest known photo ever taken of Cambodian dictator and mass-murderer Pol Pot, taken in the 1940’s-50’s when he was a student in Paris. (468x424)
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The crew of Royal Navy submarine HMS Unison display their 'Jolly Roger' after returning to Plymouth from a successful 16 months in the Mediterranean, 10 October 1943
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Simone Segouin (1925-2023), a French partisan credited with capturing 25 German Nazis in the Chartres area, poses with an MP 40 submachine gun in 1944 (photo taken in 1944, she was 19 at the time)
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Opera diva Maria Callas meets Marilyn Monroe during the Birthday party of JFK in Madison Suqare Garden, NY, 19 of May of 1962.
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Looters mill in the parking lot of the ABC Market in South Central Los Angeles, April 30, 1992, as violence and looting ensued on the first day of riots following the verdicts in the Rodney King assault case.
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Robert F. Kennedy's wife, Ethel, attempts to comfort him as lay mortally wounded on floor of the kitchen in the Ambassador Hotel. June 6, 1968. RIP
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1869 oil painting from artist Jean-Léon Gérôme showing a modeled depiction of the infamous, brutal Bashi-Bazouk of the Ottoman Empire
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Koryak warriors in lamellar armor. The shield on the back was intended to protect against arrows during the retreat. The armor in the photo was purchased for the American Museum of Natural History. Photo by Vladimir Jochelson, 1901, Northern Kamchatka
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American troops fire on insurgents in the Philippine jungle during the Philippine-American War, circa 1899
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis steers the Staten Island Ferry, July 31, 1976
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