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7 Oct 1943, Ottla Kafka, beloved sister of author Franz Kafka, was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid
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September 13, 2001 - Rescue workers sift through the wreckage on ground zero two days after the terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York.
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1980's photo of Mexican drug lord Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, who founded what would become the gulf cartel, one of the most powerful & dangerous cartels in Mexico to this day, almost a century ago in 1930. Throughout his entire career he spent only a few hours in jail & died at 85 a free man. (640x465)
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Young iranian soldier is preparing for battle against Iraqi invaders. Khuzestan, November 1981. Photo by Alfred Yaghobzadeh
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The Dassler brothers photographed with their first customers in 1928. Adolf Dassler, the founder of Adidas, is sitting in the back. His older brother Rudolf wears a tailcoat, in 1948 he couldn't stand running the company with his brother and founded the Puma brand.
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People on barricades set up by parliamentary forces during the constitutional crisis in Russia in the fall of 1993. It was a conflict between the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, which included politicians from all political positions, and President Boris Yeltsin.
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Nationalists forces celebrating after reaching the Mediterranean Sea, Vinaròs, Spain, 1938
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Iraqi minister of information Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, better known in the west as "Baghdad Bob" during a wartime propaganda broadcast in 2003. Sahhaf was known for his colorful & widely mocked press briefings in which he often made ludicrous claims about Iraq's military successes. (500x370)
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Eventual convicted sex trafficker & romantic partner of Jeffrey Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell meeting with Princess Diana at the premiere of Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom, 1984. (1920x1280)
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