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Neville Chamberlain proclaims "peace in our time" after allowing Nazi Germany to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, September 30, 1938 [Colorized][1394 x 796]
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The body of Ludwig II Of Bavaria after his suicide by drowning in the starnberg See (1886) (424 x 599)
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Traffic backs up for the final time in 1931 at the busy intersection of Main and Sixth streets as the last train chugs through downtown Dayton, Ohio at street level [1992x1665]
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Sniper of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Siege of Mostar (1993)(960x757)
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Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. She developed COBOL (1960), an early high-level programming language still in use today.
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Long Range desert patrol 1943
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"Narrow Escape" by Heinz Krebs. Following a bombing mission over southern England in the late summer of 1940, an He 111 of KG 55 is attacked by a Spitfire and badly damaged. A pair of Me 109s of JG 26 come to the rescue, sending the Spitfire diving into the Channel.
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A German soldier lies dead outside a pillbox that he had defended on Utah Beach. (1944) [640x496]
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Sharon Stone for Playboy, 1990.
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Serbs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, interned in Arad 1914-1915 [1200x792]
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Marines Hit Three Feet of Water as They Leave Their LST to Take the Beach at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, December 1943 [1670x2048]
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"We will not allow hatred to be sowed between nations!" Soviet internationalist and anti-chauvinist poster. Was created in 1957 by the artist Nina Nikolaevna Vatolina.
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On Feb 8, 1943, 17yo partisan Lepa Radić was hanged by the Germans in Bosnia. Offered her life for names of other fighters, she replied: “I am not a traitor of my people. Those you're asking about will reveal themselves when they succeed in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man.” [1280×1631]
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Entrance gate to Baron Édouard Empain Palace, Heliopolis | Cairo, Egypt, 1935. [1080×829]
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Elvis with his future wife, Priscilla, who was 14 at the time they met.
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1978 Soviet safety poster "Don't Sleep in the Cabin While Engine is Running"
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A poor child living in Near Dameron, Saint Mary's County, Maryland. Youngest of 11 children of the Edward Gant family as Farm Security Administration (FSA) borrowers, September 1940 [1700 x 2227]
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting, known for co-discovering insulin, also had a distinguished military career during both World Wars, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1915-1916 [580 x 620]
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Maria Callas and Marylin Monroe at the 1962 celebration of JFK's birthday in NYC
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Tank in action, by John Hassall. 1917
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1967 - Me (front) and my Dad's band. Dad is left rear.
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American Heavy Cruiser USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) returning to Guam after losing 104 feet of her bow during Typhoon Viper, 10 June 1945. [780 × 649]
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"Slovak and German Soldiers Having Fun" taken by Jozef Cincík, showing soldiers interacting with local women during the Axis occupation of the Soviet Union (1941)(800-781)
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WW2 South African fighter pilot ace (with 35 nazi aircraft kills), Adolph 'Sailor' Malan, being carried by fellow veterans to one of the earliest major anti-apartheid protests. ~1952, South Africa. [607x455]
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Dr Norman Bethune operating on an injured soldier in the Songyan Kou model ward, Wutai, date approximately 1938-1939, photographed by Sha Fei [765 x 1020]
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My Grandmere Alma, age 19 in 1941.
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