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Indian military police on motorcycles in Egypt, 1940s

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Indian military police on motorcycles in Egypt, 1940s

Newly Arrived Latvian Immigrant Teaches the Meaning of the U.S. Flag to His Daughter(1948)

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Newly Arrived Latvian Immigrant Teaches the Meaning of the U.S. Flag to His Daughter(1948)

Baby and mother smile for their photo together, 1952.

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Baby and mother smile for their photo together, 1952.

"Shes your daughter, not your date" Billboard against incest in Florida, USA (2016)

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"Shes your daughter, not your date" Billboard against incest in Florida, USA (2016)

Members of the Jewish Defense League burn an effigy of Vanessa Redgrave outside the Academy Awards, Los Angeles, 3 April 1978

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Members of the Jewish Defense League burn an effigy of Vanessa Redgrave outside the Academy Awards, Los Angeles, 3 April 1978

German Col. Walter Wessel orders the execution of Polish POWs, Ciepielów, Poland, 8 September 1939.

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German Col. Walter Wessel orders the execution of Polish POWs, Ciepielów, Poland, 8 September 1939.

A Cheyenne mother and her baby. (c. 1890)

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A Cheyenne mother and her baby. (c. 1890)

A man shows investigative journalists what U.S. soldiers did to his son at My Lai. 1969. (1110x624)

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A man shows investigative journalists what U.S. soldiers did to his son at My Lai. 1969. (1110x624)

Milla Jovovich answers fans questions in an online chat on AOL - February 13, 1995

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Milla Jovovich answers fans questions in an online chat on AOL - February 13, 1995

A rebel fighter kills a man suspected of looting a fan and sports bag from an abandoned house outside the town of Bouaké, Ivory Coast, October 2002.

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A rebel fighter kills a man suspected of looting a fan and sports bag from an abandoned house outside the town of Bouaké, Ivory Coast, October 2002.

"The people send me to the university, I go to the university for the people", by Yu Dawu (1976)

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"The people send me to the university, I go to the university for the people", by Yu Dawu (1976)

My mom looking cute in her ruffly gingham dress and cat eye glasses. 1963

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My mom looking cute in her ruffly gingham dress and cat eye glasses. 1963

Young Svetlana Stalina, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, sitting on the Soviet leader’s security forces chief Lavrentiy Beria's lap, with Stalin (in the background) and Nestor Lakoba in 1931.

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Young Svetlana Stalina, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, sitting on the Soviet leader’s security forces chief Lavrentiy Beria's lap, with Stalin (in the background) and Nestor Lakoba in 1931.

A member of the neo-nazi Socialist Reich Party in a brawl against anti-fascist protesters, British sector of Berlin, 1950

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A member of the neo-nazi Socialist Reich Party in a brawl against anti-fascist protesters, British sector of Berlin, 1950

Little baby girl poses by herself for her professional studio photos, 1973.

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Little baby girl poses by herself for her professional studio photos, 1973.

Two homeless men squat below the recently constructed World Trade Center, Photo: Fred Conrad for The New York Times, USA - New York City, October 1975

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Two homeless men squat below the recently constructed World Trade Center, Photo: Fred Conrad for The New York Times, USA - New York City, October 1975

Ron Haviv, Hamijeta Pajaziti tries to save her husband, Abdirami, after he suffered a fatal gunshot wound in Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Moments later, she was gunned down, too. (April 2, 1992)

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Ron Haviv, Hamijeta Pajaziti tries to save her husband, Abdirami, after he suffered a fatal gunshot wound in Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Moments later, she was gunned down, too. (April 2, 1992)

"I'd like to call this meeting of the world's strongest industrialized nations to order" (Baltimore Sun, 1994)

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"I'd like to call this meeting of the world's strongest industrialized nations to order" (Baltimore Sun, 1994)

Jews waiting in a grove near the gas chamber at Auschwitz Birkenau in May 1944

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Jews waiting in a grove near the gas chamber at Auschwitz Birkenau in May 1944

Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley Out & About in NYC, 1995.

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Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley Out & About in NYC, 1995.