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German soldiers march triumphantly past the French WWI victory monument in Verdun during the Fall of France, 1940 [1047x1388]

A German soldier is marched into captivity. Stalingrad 1943. [800x517]

Tsar Nicholas II kissing his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, ca. 1890's [750x1036]

Moments after Svjetlana Glavas, below, buried her 2-year-old daughter, Vedrana, on Tuesday, shells landed in a Sarajevo cemetery and wounded her mother, Ruza Glavas, above. Circa 1992(584x387)

A blind Japanese amma (masseur) with whistle, 1867. Masseur was one of the few professions available to blind people in Japan at the time [2260x3000]

Mussolini wielding Sayf al-Islam or Sword of Islam in 1937 [1200x978]

Here's a camouflaged road in Finland during WW2, the trees were hung up with rope so the Russians couldn't see the road. (1941)[946×1081]

Frenchman in 1940 crying as the flags of fallen France were marched through the streets of Marseille on their way to Africa. The man’s face conveys a sense of grief so profound as to transcend our expectations. The photo is nicknamed “The weeping Frenchman” or as The Crying Frenchman [736x545]

Malcolm X being taken from the Audubon Ballroom where he had just been shot. He was assassinated 57 years ago today in 1965 [1870 x 1403].

Imperial Japanese Soldiers Posing in front of Mount Fuji 1940. [1161x814]

Eruption of Vesuvius on April 26, 1872, at 3 p.m., as seen from Naples. Catalogue number 6102 - by Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914). [1280x960]

Katz’s Deli in New York City Katz’s Deli is a New York institution in its own right — as much so as the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty and baseball in the Bronx. The famous kosher-style deli, established in 1888 on Ludlow Street. (New York Daily News Archive) [1254x943]

Protestors march to the Soviet Legation in Wellington, New Zealand in 1956 with signs related to the Hungarian Revolution and the Middle East. [3016x3007]

“The Thousand Yard Stare”—USMC Private Theodore J. Miller is helped aboard a ship after intense combat on Eniwetok Atoll. Miller was KIA a month later, 1944. [640x505]

A line of East Germans standing outside of a shop in Jena. The sign reads, “The Stronger Socialism is, the Stronger the Peace!”, 1987 (723x472)

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A transport of Hungarian Jews awaiting selection for extermination at Auschwitz-Birkenau. ca.1944. [1236 x 781]..

A German SS Soldier stares down an Asian Soviet POW. Eastern Front Russia 1941. [750 x 556]

Soviet tank riders on T-40 tanks deployed for combat mission, December 1941. [1455x971]

Tsar Nicholas II after a hunt. 1910s [1700x1240]

Interior of the Log Cabin Bar, 65 Michigan Avenue, Detroit Michigan, early 1900's. The bar itself was made out of one single log. Detroit and Michigan were major players in the lumber industry during the 19th century. [519*640]

17-year-old Manny Pacquiao as a professional boxer. 1995 [1226x1227]

Visiting his hometown after WWII, Jimmy Stewart plays with his puppets from childhood in 1945 [812 x 1024].

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Filipina crying under an American flag (Philippine–American War) Date unknown [375x385]

President Ronald Reagan speaking at a Rally for Senator Durenberger in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1982. [770 × 600 pixels]

Officers of the Albanian militia the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) dress up a young boy as a soldier and gives him a gun at a rally. Kosovo, February, 1999. [399x612]

This image was taken by English photojournalist Larry Burrows, and was included in a feature in Life magazine in April 1965. In the feature, ‘One Ride with Yankee Papa 13’, Burrows was invited to join a US helicopter crew in Da Nang, Vietnam. Link to photo story in comments [981x1000]

Aftermath of the NATO bombing of the Dragiša Mišović Hospital in Belgrade, Serbia. May 20th, 1999. The NATO bombing camping in former Yugoslavia killed, by Yugoslav government estimates, between 1,200-2,000 civilians. Human Rights Watch places the number of noncombatant dead at 489-528.

Colorized photo of President Franklin D. Roosevelt preparing to speak to the American people through the radio in one of his Fireside Chats. Washington DC, 1935. [2744 × 2242]

The moment a soldier of the 1st Calvary Div. punches a Viet Cong prisoner. Bồng Sơn, South Vietnam. 1967.[1608x2048]

B-25J “Ave Maria” of the 447th BS-321st BG, 12th AF over Italy, 1945. [811x540]

Streets outside the bazaar of Tehran, Iran in 1976. [1759x1278]

Young Bill Gates and Paul Allen using a teletype computer in high school during the 1960s [922x724]

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Bulgarian doctors treat French colonial POW for his wounds WW1 period 273,80 KB 1546×1080

X-ray shows 10-year-old Sath Mohammad’s shattered leg. A missile from a U.S. plane exploded on the path while he and his little sister were walking near their home in Kandahar, Afghanistan (Nov. 6, 2001) [2160x1619]

A B-24 Liberator called "Sandman" during a bomb run over the Ploiești Astra Română oil refinery during Operation Tidal Wave, 1 August 1943. [960x700]

Former President Bill Clinton serves barbecue after groundbreaking ceremonies for the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 2001. (AP/David Quinn) [1400x1617]

Afghanistan antiwar protest, Union Square, new York City (October 7, 2001) [864x571]

Seated portrait of King Chulalongkorn of Siam (Thailand), wearing royal finery. 1880s [1860x2184]

Portrait of a monk selling medicine for madness and wounds, Shanghai, China, June 1947. [986x1178]

Aftermath of the Ufa gas explosion, USSR 1989. A ruptured gas line led to the formation of a huge gas cloud, which ignited as two packed passenger trains were passing through it. Up to 780 people were thought to have been killed. (1240x816)

Collaboration and Celebrations dedicated to the creation of the SS Division Galicia (pre-war Lwów Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic, now Western Ukraine), April~May 1943 [2510x1739]

Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela in South Africa. 1998 [750x512]

Partisans from the Moldovan resistance movement, gathered during a meeting in a forest, near the city of Zhytomyr, Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, (present-day, Zhytomyr Oblast and surrounding Zhytomyr Raion, western Ukraine), in 1943, during the Second World War on the Eastern Front. [800 x 582]

The 1999 Apartment bombings in Russia which prompted the election of Putin. Entire apartments turned to rubble, 307 civilians killed. Russia officially blamed several different groups and tried to block any investigations. Independent investigators were mysteriously assassinated.[1136x852]

Georgia State Sen. Jimmy Carter hugs his wife Rosalynn, 1966. The couple has been married for 75 years. According to family lore, the two met the week she was born in 1927. His mother was a midwife who helped deliver her. [1440 x 1080]

A Japanese woman in a kimono is seen taking a walk with a Chinese friend in north China in 1939 [1120x1120]

German soldier lighting his cigarette with a flamethrower, 1917. [996x1440]

Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020), winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949, with her younger sister Joan Fontaine (1917-2013), winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1941. They are the only siblings with lead acting Oscars. They also famously hated each other. [1024x710]

(1936) Sarla Thukral, the first Indian woman to earn an Aviation Pilot License and fly an aircraft at the age of 21. [602 x 436]

Mark Twain at Tesla’s laboratory, 1893. Tesla is in the background. From T.C. Martin, “Tesla’s Oscillators and Other Inventions,” The Century Magazine, 49:916-33 (April 1895), Fig. 13 [200x250].

Astronaut John Glenn inspects artwork on the outside of his Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7. 60 years ago, on February 20th 1962, Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. [3000x1930]

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Queen Elizabeth II was born April 21, 1926, in London. She is held here by her mother, also named Elizabeth. Her father would later become King George VI. [1600 x 1067]

The Münchener Post, socialist newspaper, shut down by Hitler, March 9th 1933 (Munich, Germany) [1142x860]

The miller's grandchildren at play, pretending to protect Northbourne Mill at Eastry in Kent, September 1941. [1000x788]

Anti-war demonstrators tried flower power on MPs blocking their path to the Pentagon building on 21 October 1967 [1200x750]

A Bulgarian military doctor and paramedic treating a wounded French POW. WW1, Date & Location unknown [1546x1080]

Private Joseph Darnand, serving in the 35th Infantry Regiment. He later became the leader of the collaborationist paramilitary group Milice during WW2. Belfort, France, 1916. [625x923]

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White and black slaves from New Orleans / Photographed by Kimball, 477 Broadway, N.Y.[1863],[2147x3376]

USSR wins gold in hockey at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada (1988) [1020 x 696]

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Prima Ballerina Anna Pavlova with her pet swan Jack, 1927 [563 x 683]

A British soldier gives a V-for-Victory sign to German prisoners captured at El Alamein, 26 October 1942.[603x600]

American paratrooper James Flanagan (2nd Platoon, C Co, 1-502nd PIR), among the first to make successful landings on the continent, holds a Nazi flag captured in a village assault. Marmion Farm at Ravenoville, Utah Beach, France. 6 June 1944. (Source: US Army Archives) [980x803]

East German communist politician and leader of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) Erich Ernst Paul Honecker, General Secretary of the Communist Party and leader of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, they were being driven, during a hunting trip, East Germany, c. 1971. [800 x 581]

Oct. 23, 1984 One year after the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings which killed 241 US military personnel, a Lebanese soldier lights a cigarette in the basement of the destroyed US Marine HQ. Departing Marines left a message behind. [609x900]

Sergeant George A. Kaufman of the 9th Army replaces an "Adolf-Hitler-Str." street sign with a hand-made one, "Roosevelt Boulevard". (March 9th, 1945) [1503x1200]

Adolf Hitler and an uncomfortable Helga Goebbels, 1935 - By Heinrich Hoffmann. [741x1200]

Suffragists protest in front of the White House with a sign denouncing President Wilson, 1917 or '18 [3000x2064]

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Bombs falling and flak exploding during Operation Tidal Wave, which targeted Axis oil refineries in Ploiești, Romania, August 1943. This mission was one of the costliest for the USAAF in the European Theater, with 53 aircraft and 660 air crewmen lost. [640x496]

Bavarian boy enjoying his camera, circa 1910 (401x640)

SS Oriana in Sidney, 1960 (640x898)

Knocked out jeep on Iwo Jima, 1945 [2013x2048]

Early X-ray image of a man's head. This image was taken only one year after the discovery of X-rays. At the time, no one knew of the ill effects of radiation. (1896) [771x1108]

Miss [besieged] Sarajevo, Inela Nogić, 1990s [763x513]

Edith Piaf reading Django Rheinhardt’s palm in Paris, 1940s. Photo by Michael Ochs. [591X480]

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North Vietnamese pull U.S airman John McCain out of a lake in 1967. He had ejected from his plane after it had been shot down, and he broke his right leg and both arms while briefly being knocked unconscious from the force. He was held captive by the Viet Cong for over 5 years (750x507)