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Chirk Castle, Chirk, Wales.
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Actress Allison Hayes - 1950s
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Rare 1950's photo of Vasily Blokhin, Joseph Stalin's head executioner, in old age. Having personally killed tens of thousands of people in his career, including 7,000 Polish officers in under a month during the "Katyn Massacre," Blokhin was the most prolific murderer in human history. (538 X 800)
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Somebody’s Memaw was the life of the party! (Late 60s/early 70s)
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Mother Kata Šoljić with photos of her four sons who all died in the defense of the city of Vukovar during the war for Croatian independence (1991) [708 x 442]
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Israeli Soldier passes Palestinian Children in the West Bank (1989-11-20) [1613 x 1920]
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Patrice Lumumba calling for the removal of Belgian Troops from the Congo. 20 July 1960 (458 x 480)
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Triumph in Constantinople by Darko Stojanovic
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"The blind girl" by Christer Strömholm, Hiroshima 1963
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Gavrilo Princip's parents in front of their house, Bosnia, 1910s/1920s [645 x 890]
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Actress Ava Gardner (1953)
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Serbians of the paramilitary force 'Serb Volunteer Guard' stand among the ruins of Vukovar. From 25 Aug to 18 Nov 1991, the city of Vukovar was under siege by the Yugoslav People's Army, supported by paramilitary forces from Serbia. 1,131 civilians were killed (Croatia 1991) [2867x1875]
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An African man points a defendant at the Luanda Trial. The trial is only time that anyone has been tried for "crimes against peace" since World War Two. Thirteen Western mercenaries, mostly from Britain and the United States, were tried by an Angolan tribunal for war crimes, 1976 [2048 x 1429].
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U.S. soldier standing in a truckload of captured gold recovered from Saddam Hussein's regime in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, late 2003. Although exact numbers are unknown, some estimate that during his 24-year reign, Saddam built a personal fortune as large as $40,000,000,000 (1125 X 1584)
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Mr. Samuel L Jackson at 21. Circa 1971
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Early 80's....hot girl and me. Almost 41 years ago. She just reminded me to take the trash down. Married 39+ years.
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“Where Marines Go, Their Pin-ups Go.” U.S. Marines on a landing craft approaching Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. One of the Marines shows a picture of a pin-up girl to the others, 1943. (National Museum of U.S. Navy) [1611x2048]
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Rebecca Ann Felton. On 21 November 1922, she became the first woman to serve in the US Senate, although she served for only one day. Felton was a white supremacist and the last slave owner to serve in Senate who spoke vigorously in favor of lynching African Americans (c1922) [2776x3673]
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"The Navy Needs Ships to Avenge Pearl Harbor. Let's go.” Bethlehem Steel Company, ca 1943
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The experimental steam locomotive 6399 »Fury« , designed, by a collaboration between the LMS (London Midland & Scottish railway C૦̣) & the Superheater C૦̣ , to bring-about, through use of extremely high pressure steam, a step-up in efficiency: sometime between 1930 & 1935. [1440×960]
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New York tour busses, 1904. [2014x1589]
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President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, speaking to the crowds. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. November 19, 1863 [735x599]
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Bruce Willis on the set of Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
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The Veteran's Farewell. (1914)
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found this in grandpas pictures
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British soldier lights a cigarette for his Dayak colleague. Malaya, 1950. (829x1200)
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