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Cannibals caught with the remains of butchered children during the Russian famine of 1921–1922

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General Stanisław Sosabowski (left) with Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, commander of the British 1st Airborne Corps, c. 1944.

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Chinese child soldiers marching to fight against Operation Ichi-Go, Yunnan province, 1944

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After the Battle of Saipan, Marines found the body of Japanese Lt. General Yoshige Saito in a cave and gave him a funeral with full military honors. Here they prepare to lower his flag-draped coffin into its resting place. 13 July, 1944 (Official USMC Archives photo)

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28 year old Ray Harryhausen at work on his first industry job, animating the title character in the film "Mighty Joe Young". 1949

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British Hurdler, May 1923

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A video rental store in Spain, mid to late 80s

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A rice cake seller. Japan, 1914

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Benito Mussolini Skiing March 1937

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Edgar Sengier listening to General Leslie Groves read the Medal of Merit citation for his contribution to the allied war effort. Sengier was the director of a mining company in Katanga in the Belgian Congo that supplied the ore used in the Manhattan Project. 1946

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Nuclear explosion with a force equivalent to 600 kilotons of TNT, photographed through the periscope of the submarine USS Carbonero, launched. Test codenamed “Frigate Bird” during Operation Dominic, 6 May 1962. The only full-scale test of a strategic missile system conducted by the USA.

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Sean Michael Coulthard (Michael Cole) as a journalist and News correspondent - stands next to a ruined building - when he spent 9 months covering the Bosnian Civil War - amidst the Breakup of Yugoslavia, c. 1994.

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