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1991: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Colin Powell, briefs President George H.W. Bush and other officials on Operation Desert Storm in the White House Treaty Room

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Students related to the Autonomist movement protest in front of La Sapienza University after the expulsion of CGIL trade union secretary Luciano Lama. Rome, February 17, 1977.[980x688]

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Indian Forces in North Africa with captured German flag 1945 (800 × 793)

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A Kamikaze Pilot before Commencing His Last Mission, 1944-1945, Pacific War [1500x1895]

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German boys at a gumball machine, 1955 [620 x 620]

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One of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders during bayonet practice, 1941. [962 x 1237]

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The first official photographer of the British Army, Ernest Brooks, at work in a frontline trench on the western front with his Goerz Anschutz plate camera, 1917. (Colorized) [1758 × 2480]

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Bill Clinton announces the return of the Statue of Freedom to the top of the U.S. Capitol, October, 1993 [3408x2260]

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American military attachés inspecting the Finnish frontlines at Rukajärvi 20.03.1943. [2481x1743]

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USS Atlanta, Hornet, and New Orleans following the Battle of Midway, 6 June 1942 [744x579]

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The silhouette of dreadnought HMS Superb as she makes her way down the River Tyne, spring 1909.[1024 × 755]

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Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C., May 1943 [2777x2153]

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Children of Japanese sympathizers in prison stockade on Guam. Photographed by Lieutenant Wayne Miller, November 1944. [2180 x 2268]

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Robert Kennedy campaigning in Modesto, California. May 30, 1968 [1200x964]

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Ironworkers from Local 40 build the World Trade Center antenna in New York, 1979 [2700x3900]

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Members of General Patton's army with a stash of approximately 100 tons of gold bullion and art treasures found hidden in a salt mine near Merkers. 1945. [1000x741]

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Floriańska Street in Krakow, 1936. [1024 x 745]

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The arrival of a US Sikorsky helicopter with relief supplies causes a stampede of famished Kurdish refugees. An eight-year-old girl is trampled to death in the melee. Turkey, 1991. Photo: Leslie Stone. [2560 x 1672]

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F6F-5P of VF-23 breaking in two after a crash landing on the deck of USS Princeton (CVL-23) 1943-44 [1024×824]

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Max Valier with his rocket car, 1929 [800 x 552]

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Hitler casting his vote during the March elections, 1933. [1390 x 920]

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Members of the 55 Independent Squadron wait to board the Empire Windrush at Southampton, to fight in the Korean War, 1950. [1000x690]

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Students protest against segregation, Fillmore Street, San Francisco, May 17, 1963 [1533 x 1536]

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Excavation work on what would be New York’s Grand Central Station from 1908. [1600x1116]

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Golf driving range, Tokyo, Japan 1964 [640x455]

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American generals, including Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower (seated, centre), gathered at 12th Army Group Headquarters, Bad Wildungen, Germany on 11th May 1945. [652 x 370]

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Visitors to the boneyard at Colon Cemetery in Havana, Cuba ca. 1899 [395x520]

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"Pillars of creation": star forming pillars in the Eagle Nebula, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. April 1 1995. [2434 x 2400]

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Staff at Conley Hatch Asylum in London, England waiting for a patient to come down from a tree, 1895 [595x710]

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Shell-shocked soldier in a trench during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive in September 1916 [1488 x 1600]

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Crew members on deck on the Italian steamer Milazzo in New York harbour during her maiden voyage, 1916. At 11,477 GRT, she was the largest cargo ship in the world when built; she would be sunk by a U-Boat a year later. [1076 x 1508]

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WW1 Austro Hungarian Regimental officers kitchen near Malga Laghetto, Trentino, May 1916. Colourised. (1081 x 760)

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Spanish Civil War, Republican militia German volunteer Liesel Carritt, September 1936. Colourised. (557 x 760)

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Sailors pose next to the 16-inch guns of the battleship HMS Nelson, July 1941.[2343×1772]

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A U.S. Army soldier of the 90th Infantry Division checks the identity papers of a young German POW as another wounded German POW supplies necessary information for his identity papers following their capture at Omaha Beach after the Allied Normandy landings. 9 June 1944. [3169 x 2480]

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Senate side of the Capitol having an annual bath by Captain H.C. Corder, chief of the Washington Fire Department. 1935 October 24 [766x943]

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A US soldier mocks Hitler, c. 1944-45. [962 x 1451] (Colorized)

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Identifying dead Federals and collecting them for burial, Mexican Revolution, 1915 [2698x1540]

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An Israeli lieutenant and a French U.N. officer pose with a sister of the St. Louis Hospital in Jerusalem. She's holding false teeth recovered after having fallen out of the window into No-man’s land, 22 may 1956. [800 × 593 ]

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Ulster volunteers, the Ulster Unionist paramilitary force, in training. 1914. [1000x732]

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A captured Wehrmacht soldier identifies an SS trooper as one those who shot US Army prisoners in Malmedy, Belgium, during the “Battle of the Bulge”. These men were captured by the 3rd US Army near Passau, Germany.1945.[1000x758]

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Funeral of Yoshitsugu Saitō by American military personnel, Saipan, 1944 [1280x964]

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British Soldiers Surrender to the Japanese Army during the Battle of Singapore, February 1942. [1334 x 750]

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Riot police shoot a tear gas grenade at a squatted building during a forced eviction. Nieuwmarkt Riots, Amsterdam, March 24, 1975.[1211x900]

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People washing the corpses of 11 women and children killed by Soviet partisans, Seitajärvi, Finland, 1944 [3543 × 2414] [NSFL]

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The official dedication ceremony for Frances gift of the "New Colossus" on October 28, 1866 [640 x 340]

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Pfc John E. Gankawis, 517th Medical Clearing Co., tests an incoming patient for radioactivitiy before sending him forward to the evacuation hospital, during Operation "Fireball" (Darmstadt, Germany, 6th August 1956) [3000×2403 ]

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Outlaw John Shaw being given a postmortem drink of whiskey after the Canyon Diablo gunfight, 1905 (250 x 345)

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Charles Lindbergh is mobbed after he successfully lands his plane in Paris on May 21, 1927 after the first solo trans-Atlantic flight [700x502]

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Harley and Davidson are joined by Arthur Davidsons 2 brothers. At this time the company had 18 employees. (1907)[611x404]

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