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Funeral after the fire at the Maria Mine, which killed 319 men on 31. May 1898. Despite one man being sentenced to 3 years in jail, the cause of fire remains unknown. Příbram, Bohemia, Austria Hungary[1125x763]
Massive column of thousands of German prisoners of war marching down the Autobahn - as dozens of tanks and armoured vehicles of the United States Army and Western Allies, passed by, on the way to final objectives: last days of the War in Europe, late April 1945 [960 x 762]
Approximately 40 Japanese soldiers who committed suicide to avoid capture by US forces. Attu Island, Alaska. 31 May, 1943 [5445 × 4449]
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Warsaw Uprising: Sappers disarming a dud 600 mm mortar shell, which crashed through several stories and stopped in the basement of “Adria” townhouse at Moniuszki 10 street, 18 August 1944. Photo taken by Eugeniusz "Brok" Lokajski. [640x452]
Consolidated B-24 liberators of the 15th U.S. Army Air Forces during a bombing run over the Concordia Vega Oil refinery, Ploești, Romania. 31 May 1944 [5522 × 4145]
A squadron of women in the Italian Resistance having a little chat, Fascist Italy, circa 1941 [597 x 432]
Teutonic castle in Malborkthe, largest castle in the world, which only suffered serious damage in its history in 1945, after a short defense of the Volkssturm. The nearby medieval town did not survive and was rebuilt in socialist style. [800x517]
An American G.I. places his arm around a Japanese girl as they view the surroundings of Hibiya Park, near the Tokyo palace of the emperor, on January 21, 1946. [944x647]
A game ranger on horseback chases elephants back into the boundaries of the Etosha Pan Game Reserve after they had strayed onto an adjacent farm land (South West Africa 1971) [1843x2867]
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University of Pennsylvania dental students observing surgery in the Oral Surgery Clinic at the former Philadelphia General Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania circa 1910 [4007×3104]
Communist Party HQ in Paris. Place Kossuth 1952 [4659x3690]
Colourized Picture of Negusa Nagast (King of Kings) Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889-1913.
Opening day at Disneyland Paris in 1992 (364 x 247)
Lepa Radić, a 17 year old Serbian girl was executed by Nazi officers. The Nazi executing her offered her a deal. If she revealed where her comrades were hiding, he would spare her life. She replied "My comrades will reveal themselves when they avenge me." February 11, 1943. [900x599]
Carrier Pigeons are released from their cages with messages for other bases during a demonstration of the work performed by the Civil Air Patrol - Detroit, Michigan - 1943 [1200x921]
University of Pennsylvania dental students observing surgery in the Oral Surgery Clinic at the former Philadelphia General Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania circa 1910. [2094x1580]
Unidentified, picture believed to have been taken by Rodney Alcala, serial killer and sex offender. He had a collection of pictures of many anonymous people, some of whom were his victims. It is not known who this woman is or if she is alive. Before 1980. Link to the gallery in the comment.[620x610]
Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering demonstrates an exercise horse in the home gymnasium of his villa, Carinhall, to Adolf Hitler in October 1937. [612 x 471]
Edmund Hillary took this photograph of Tenzing Norgay as they set foot on the summit of Mount Everest. 29 May 1953 [2280 × 3368]
Amin Al Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem tours the Trebbin concentration camp, 1943 [1101 x 769]
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Beds after a fire in a psychiatric hospital in Górna Grupa, Polish People's Republic. 55 patients died and 26 were injured, many were tied to their beds, others were afraid of the firemans and returned to the building after being rescued. 1 November 1980 [840x450]
Ann Margaret USO tour 1967 573x739 both 96DPi
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Soviet explorers planted a flag with Stalin at the North Pole in 1937. [610x360]
Alexander Gardner's photograph of Allan Pinkerton, Abraham Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand, at Antietam, 1862. [1280 x 1790]
Swat Eleven Foot Ball Club 1976, Swat was a Pashtun kingdom in British India and later in Pakistan with which it was formally integrated on July 28, 1969, although some traces of its former separateness can still be seen today. [960x642]
