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Twenty-one American soldiers refused to return to America at the end of the Korean War. The sign on the truck reads: “We Stay for Peace”.

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Nazi rally in Buenos Aires, April 10, 1938.

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Victims of Tsarist Russia .

Exiles and convicts wait at Tyumen wait to board a prison barge for Tomsk. Many are joined voluntarily by their wives and children.

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Shchedrin, a schoolteacher, was a political prisoner at the Kara gold mines who escaped in April 1882 by tunneling under the prison wall. He and other prisoners were recaptured and permanently chained to wheelbarrows, before being sent to isolation cells at the castle of Schlisselburg.

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Women and children exiles stand in front of their barracks.

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Three Russian war orphans stand amid the remains of what was once their home in late 1942 after German forces destroyed the family’s house .

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Samuel Reshevsky learned chess when he was 4 years old. He became known as a child chess prodigy and was playing simultaneous games of chess against adults when he was 6 years of age.

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Fidel Castro visiting the Lincoln Memorial during his visit to the United States, 1959

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😱 can you imagine how many files and how many cabinets there’d be now, 25 years later? I thought these were stored digitally nowadays…
 
Mata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy and executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I

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Aircraft engines produced unprecedented sound, so in order to hear them at a distance, the war efforts developed listening devices. A two-horn system at Bolling Field, USA, 1921

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50 years ago today. The photographer, Hugo Wessels is a customer in our store. They ran a front page feature story on him in the local fish wrap last Sunday

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London crowds celebrating the signing of the Armistice which came into effect at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918

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People gather late at night in London’s Trafalgar Square on July 20, 1969 to witness the first Moon landing on a giant TV screen

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Military officers and politicians climbing over furniture to watch the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in the aftermath of World War 1. June 28th, 1919.

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On the night of October 14 1940, a bomb penetrated the road and exploded in Balham Underground station, killing 68 people. A No 88 bus travelling in black-out conditions then fell into the crater.

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A Catholic missionary holding the hand of a starving Ugandan boy in 1980

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Can you spot the difference?
 
A French pilot made an emergency landing in friendly territory after a failed attempt to attack a German Zeppelin hangar near Brussels, Belgium, in 1915.

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Extremists assassinate President Anwar Sadat in Cairo, 1981

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