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  French Renault FT-17 light tank which was captured by the Soviets during the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1920, afterwards donated by the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Afghanistan – photo shows U.S. soldiers with the tank, c. 2005.

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  History repeats itself: Hellenic Navy frigate HS Kimon leaves Salamis Naval Base on her way to Cyprus, to enforce the island’s air defence against Iranian threats, 2.476 years after admiral Kimon’s operation against the Persian empire in Cyprus.

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  My dad in 1967, Mexico. One of the few photographs I have of him in his youth. He is 76 today.

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  Satellite image of Iranian drones carrier (IRIS Makran) after being targeted.

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  In 1920 in England, Mary Ann Bevan entered the “ Ugliest Woman in the World ” contest after developing acromegaly and losing her husband, doing it simply to put food on the table for her kids

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  Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie minutes before their assasination that would ingnite WW1, June 28,1914

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  The first ever underwater photograph taken in the South of France at a depth of 164 feet by Louis Boutan in 1899

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  ‘Out of the Ruins’ September 11 and the Rise of Mass Surveillance, 2006

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  A US soldier rests in what used to be Saddam’s chair under a painting of Uday playing with a tiger, watched by his parents Saddam and Sajeda, April 2003.

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  7 year old Prince Harry yelling at Princess Diana, 1991

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  Ali Khamenei in trench during Iran-Iraq war (1980s)

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  Great-grandmother and her father, Los Angeles, 1914

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  The ‘A’ quadruple 14-inch mounting of the battleship HMS King George V, under construction in April 1940.

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  Skeletonized corpse of a German soldier outside a trench dugout near Beaumont Hamel, November 1916.

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  A Japanese officer beheads a Chinese prisoner. China, Second-Sino Japanese War, 1930’s. NSFW

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  My 3rd great grandparents who were born into slavery.

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  A boy watches television for the first time through a shop window, 1948

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  ‘Occupiers, go home! We don’t want Russians!’. Czechoslovakia. Prague 1968

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  Dazed US Soldiers wounded by a hand grenade dropped by a German prisoner (Center, dead on the ground) near Jülich Germany – February 1945

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  A Wehrmacht officer of the 707th Division hangs two Belorussian teenagers in Nazi-Occupied Minsk, photographed during Operation Barbarossa. October 26, 1941.

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