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  Dismantled Soviet U-2 (Po-2) biplane near the Saint Catherine Church in occupied Vyazma. 1941. German color photo

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  Dutch cyclist Piet Van Kempen circles the track at Wembley during a six day cycling event, London, 25th September 1936

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  September 1917 American Expeditionary Force parades in front of Buckingham palace. When the British paraded through the American capitol 103 years previous they burned it to the ground

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  Motorcycle patrol by occupying German troops on Jersey, 1941.

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  Peasant children lined up for food hand during the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. The consensus is that around 30 million people died in the famine. The famine was caused by communist policies during the failed Great Leap Forward economic campaign and natural disasters.

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  “The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Isherwood (DD-520) steams off Ie Shima, during the fighting there in mid-April 1945.” Original color WWII photo of artillery shells hitting Japanese positions on the island of Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa, April 1945.

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  Ali Maow Maalin, the last known person in the world with smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery (Merca, Somalia 1977)

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  1967 Press Photo The Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

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  Interrogation of a captured German non-commissioned officer, captured along with the loot. 1941

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  8th Air Force Boeing B-17E 41-9154 “THE BAT OUTA HELL” at RAF Polebrook, England, October 1942 (LIFE Magazine Archives Margaret Bourke-White Photographer)

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  Young Wife from 1926

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  Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen photographed by Steve Emberton, 1978. .

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  Gaza in Ruins during the First World War (1917)

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  Party leaders pay their respect to Chairman Mao lying in state; from the left, Hua Guofeng, Wang Hongwen, Ye Jianying, Zhang Chunqiao, Jiang Qing, Yao Wenyuan, and Li Xiannian. 13th September 1976.

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  Strike photo taken from USS Intrepid aircraft showing severe damage to the runways and the surrounding areas on Roi Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1 Feb 1944.

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  Commonwealth tank crews being instructed on their newly delivered M3 Grant medium tanks. Early 1942, North Africa.

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  Chess class in a school, 1975, Pskov, USSR.

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  Street in the mill district in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1941, Photo by Jack Delano.

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  French President François Mitterrand and General Maurice Schmitt visit the battlefield of Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam, 1993.

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  Broadway New-York 1952.

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