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A German soldier says farewell to his son before leaving for the front, c. 1940
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Poland based Ukrainian nationalist Mykola Lemyk, being charged for assassinating a Soviet diplomat in Lwów, Aleksei Maylov. He did so in protest against the genocide of Soviet Ukrainians, the Holodomor. Sentenced to life in prison, but escaped during WW2 and killed by the Gestapo (1933)(640x471)
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The British actress Audrey Kathleen Hepburn - as she was reviewing a script before recording a program for the United Nations Children's Fund - on the United Nations Radio, c. 1953
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Air France Flight 358 overshot the runway at Pearson International Airport (YYZ) bursting into flames. All passengers and crew were evacuated successfully, Toronto, Ontario, 2005
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A poor child living in Near Dameron, Saint Mary's County, Maryland. Youngest of 11 children of the Edward Gant family as Farm Security Administration (FSA) borrowers, September 1940
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Voice acting legend Mel Blanc is presented with a '58 Edsel for his 80th Birthday. Presented to him by Bugs Bunny, whom he voiced for 50 straight years. May 30th 1988
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Neville Chamberlain proclaims "peace in our time" after allowing Nazi Germany to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, September 30, 1938
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The body of Ludwig II Of Bavaria after his suicide by drowning in the starnberg See (1886) (424 x 599)
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Sniper of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Siege of Mostar (1993)(960x757)
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Leprosy In Its Clinical & Pathological Aspects by Hansen & Looft, John Wright and Co, Bristol, 1895
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Dr Norman Bethune operating on an injured soldier in the Songyan Kou model ward, Wutai, date approximately 1938-1939, photographed by Sha Fei
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