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London on 24 April 1993, after Irish terrorists detonated a bomb.
‘Oh! But they are kind, the little negresses, and tame!’ French Colonial Cigarette Card by Albert Bergeret, Circa 1901
French aircraft carrier Clemenceau (R98, top) passing her sister ship Foch (R99, bottom) off Toulon, France, in 1997
Photos from the last Romanov costume ball held at Winter Palace in 1903. It was held in the in two stages, on February 11 and 13
A crowd arrives at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. May-June 1944.
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On this day in 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR exploded. This is the only known photo taken of reactor number 4 on the day of the explosion.
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‘A study in empires’ – German propaganda cartoon from the Second World War contrasting the size of Germany with the British Empire, painting the latter as the aggressor (1940)
Bodies of suspected communists massacred by the South Korean troops and police. Between 60-200 thousand people were executed under watch of US troops. The event remained tabboo for 40 years. Bodo League Massacre, South Korea, 1950
‘Quite visible stitching’ – Poster, mocking the attempts of church to incorporate science into religion // USSR // 1970s
ROK Military Police, KPA POW’s, and civilians recovering the bodies of dead Koreans that were massacred by retreating KPA troops in Hamhung during the Korean War, 1950
Serbian paramilitary commander Ratko Mladić distributes food to Bosnian women. While journalists were taking this photo of him, his men were slaughtering 8000 men and boys, relatives of those same women. Srebrenica, July 1995.
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