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  Harry Powers, the ‘Butcher of Clarksburg’, stands in jail after confessing to murdering five people, including a mother and her three children, ages 10 to 14, whom he strangled and beat to death. The police explained the bruises by claiming that Harry had ‘fallen up’ some stairs, 1931 .

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  A Vietnamese teenager buttons up her mother’s blouse after she was sexually assaulted by American GI’s. They were gunned down moments after this photo was taken. My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 16 March 1968.

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  Billboard of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation: 135 years since birth / Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin / ‘He received Russia with a plough, and left with the atom bomb’ W. Churchill. 2015.

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  A French soldier in 1918, equipped with a helmet with chainmail to protect the eyes from shell fragments, stones, and other dangerous elements

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  Several frigates during the October 19, 1995 fleet review. From front to back: Type 053H1G Shantou(汕头, 561), type 053H2 Huangshi(黄石, 535), Type 053H2G Anqing(安庆, 539) and type 053H2G Tongling(铜陵, 541). It was the largest fleet review China had done at the time. (extra info in description)

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  Seto groom and bride at their wedding in Värska, Setomaa, Estonia in 1912.

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  Serbia faces the world court (International Herald Tribune, 2007)

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  Presidents Kennedy, Eisenhower, and Truman at Eleanor Roosevelt’s funeral. November 10, 1962.

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  August Sabbe (left) on the day of his attempted arrest and death on the bank of the Võhandu river, 28. September 1978

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  “The Face of a Modern Crusader- with his hair matted and grit and determination stamped all over his face, an American soldier, injured while landing on a beachhead on the northern coast of France, has his hand bandaged by an American medical officer” June 6, 1944.

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  USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) passing through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Med. Nov 9, 2025

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  Four principal classes of Russian Navy surface combatants are seen here, from left to right: a Slava-class guided missile cruiser, a Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruiser, an Udaloy-class anti-submarine destroyer, and an Admiral Gorshkov-class multirole frigate.

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  Some of the 300 to 500 people who tried to lynch a black teenager charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. The lynching was foiled when Tennessee National Guard troops shot and stabbed dozens of the attackers, four of them fatally, after tear gas proved ineffective (Shelbyville, 1934) .

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  The fast and heavily armed Yugoslavian destroyer ‘Dubrovnik’

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  An aerial view of the bodies of the victims of the Jonestown mass-suicide, 18/11/1978 (picture by Jose L. Sanchez, 20/11/1978)

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  Final assembly of Jagdpanzer VI ‘Jagdtiger’ at the Nibelungenwerke tank factory in St. Valentin, Lower Austria, 1944

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  French marines (21st RIMa) VBLs during night shooting practice on the flight deck of Mistral-class LHD Tonnerre, operation Corymbe, West Africa, October 25.

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  My 3x’s great grandmother – Born in upstate New York in 1837 and moved to Michigan as a child in the 1840s, Civil War era photo taken outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan – School teacher who raised 7 relatively successful children

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  Leadship of her class of destroyers, USS Willis A. Lee (DL-4) passes over the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia, c. 1959.

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  «Germany 30 years after…» Political cartoon by Patrick Chappatte, 2019

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